Message-ID: <4B48397F.1040900@bitwrit.com.au>
Date: 2010-01-09T08:08:31Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: Plotting numeric values against non numeric items
In-Reply-To: <1263001120737-1010129.post@n4.nabble.com>
On 01/09/2010 12:38 PM, lse1986 wrote:
> Hi i want do a line graph.
>
> My y axis contains numeric values. My x axis contains non numeric
> statements.
>
> This is what i want the graph to look like.
>
> When i try to plot this graph on R it comes up with the following error
> message:
>
> "Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'xlim' values
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) : NAs introduced by coercion
> 2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
> 3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf"
>
>
Hi Sam,
While I don't know what you want the graph to look like, I would suggest
the following:
xf<-factor(x)
plot(as.numeric(xf),rnorm(10),type="l",xaxt="n")
axis(1,at=1:10,labels=xf)
Jim