Message-ID: <6c7a27b8-0650-5588-f64a-39f392f38480@dewey.myzen.co.uk>
Date: 2018-12-18T14:34:11Z
From: Michael Dewey
Subject: Problem with Plotting in R
In-Reply-To: <5C19015C.8080100@comcast.net>
Dear Bob
We do not have your data so it is hard to be sure but plot() takes two
parameters for the data x and y so when you give it three you are
confusing it into thinking one of them is something else.
What exactly were you trying to do with the failed command?
On 18/12/2018 14:17, rsherry8 wrote:
>
> Please consider the following R statements:
>
> ??? > x = seq(1:1632)
> ??? > length( MyData$NWorth )
> ??? [1] 1632
> ??? > length( MyData$NWorthSm )
> ??? [1] 1632
> ??? > plot( x, MyData$NWorth, type="l" )
> ??? > plot( x, MyData$NWorthSm, type="l" )
> ??? > plot( x, MyData$NWorth, MyData$NWorthSm, type="l" )
>
> All of the above statements work except for the last one. The last one
> produces the following message:
>
> ??? Error in plot.window(...) : invalid 'xlim' value
>
> So I then tired this:
>
> ??? > xlim1 = c(0, 5000)
> ??? >plot( x, MyData$NWorth, MyData$NWorthSm, type="l", xlim = xlim1 )
>
> Which produced the following error message:
> ??? Error in plot.window(...) : invalid 'ylim' value
>
> So, I tired this:
> ??? > ylim1 = c(0,9000)
> ??? > plot( x, MyData$NWorth, MyData$NWorthSm, type="l", xlim = xlim1,
> ylim = ylim1 )
>
> Which produced the following error message:
> ??? Error in strsplit(log, NULL) : non-character argument
>
> I would like to know what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thank you,
> Bob
>
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