barchart error (invalid line type) maybe caused by mangled data frame, & fix() resolving the problem
Hi, I use R 2.0.1 at WinXP. I ran into the following problem when using barchart() and would like to ask if there is a solution for it other than using fix(). My data is:
class(b)
[1] "data.frame"
unclass(b)
$uint [1] 84 42 71 82 80 123 13 1 15 77 61 56 62 27 100 87 110 191 71 [20] 3 48 144 101 115 161 52 164 105 154 266 93 1 53 167 161 130 195 $uext [1] 17 12 13 17 14 32 34 5 50 132 93 66 86 66 65 63 54 97 34 [20] 41 81 123 88 85 213 159 171 158 140 153 75 65 126 252 225 127 192 $uges [1] 101 54 84 99 94 155 47 6 65 209 154 122 148 93 165 150 164 288 105 [20] 44 129 267 189 200 374 211 335 263 294 419 168 66 179 419 386 257 387 $month [1] "01" "02" "03" "04" "05" "06" "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12" "01" "02" "03" [16] "04" "05" "06" "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12" "01" "02" "03" "04" "05" "06" [31] "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12" "01" $year [1] "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "02" "03" "03" "03" [16] "03" "03" "03" "03" "03" "03" "03" "03" "03" "04" "04" "04" "04" "04" "04" [31] "04" "04" "04" "04" "04" "04" "05" attr(,"row.names") [1] "1" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "110" "111" [13] "112" "113" "114" "115" "116" "117" "118" "119" "120" "121" "122" "123" [25] "124" "125" "126" "127" "128" "129" "130" "131" "132" "133" "134" "135" [37] "136"
or simply:
> b
uint uext uges month year
1 84 17 101 01 02
11 42 12 54 02 02
12 71 13 84 03 02
13 82 17 99 04 02
14 80 14 94 05 02
15 123 32 155 06 02
16 13 34 47 07 02
17 1 5 6 08 02
18 15 50 65 09 02
19 77 132 209 10 02
110 61 93 154 11 02
111 56 66 122 12 02
112 62 86 148 01 03
113 27 66 93 02 03
114 100 65 165 03 03
115 87 63 150 04 03
116 110 54 164 05 03
117 191 97 288 06 03
118 71 34 105 07 03
119 3 41 44 08 03
120 48 81 129 09 03
121 144 123 267 10 03
122 101 88 189 11 03
123 115 85 200 12 03
124 161 213 374 01 04
125 52 159 211 02 04
126 164 171 335 03 04
127 105 158 263 04 04
128 154 140 294 05 04
129 266 153 419 06 04
130 93 75 168 07 04
131 1 65 66 08 04
132 53 126 179 09 04
133 167 252 419 10 04
134 161 225 386 11 04
135 130 127 257 12 04
136 195 192 387 01 05
What I would like to do is this: display a bar chart uint per month with
the values per year stacked. So I type:
barchart(uint ~ month, data=b, stack=TRUE, horizontal=F, groups=year,
xlab="Month", ylab="Count"
)
The trellis window pops up and I after drawing one bar I get this error message:
Error in grid.Call.graphics("L_rect", x$x, x$y, x$width, x$height, valid.just(x$just)) :
invalid line type
I tried several things to resolve the problem. Rather by accident I typed:
fix(b)
After trying the barchart() function again, it was properly displayed. I guess that the data.frame is somehow messed up during the aggregation procedure, which didn't cause any problems so far, and that fix() somehow puts things right again. Now, is there a non-interactive solution for this problem? Does anybody know what caused this problem in the first place? The data is read from a bundle of csv files using this function:
cls.read.data <- function (name, months=months.default, only.all=F, ...) {
datavars <- paste(name, months, sep="")
for (m in months) {
v <- paste(name, m, sep="")
filename <- paste(data.dir, paste(v, ".txt", sep=""), sep="/")
print(filename)
data <- tryCatch(read.table(filename, ...), error=function(filename, ...) {data.frame()})
if (nrow(data) > 0) {
data[['month']] <- m
}
assign(v, data)
}
fn <- function(m) {eval(parse(text=m))}
rv <- lapply(datavars, fn)
rv$all <- do.call("rbind", rv)
if (only.all) {
rv$all
} else {
rv
}
}
ben.cols <- c("uint", "uext", "uges")
months.all <- c(
"0201", "0202", "0203", "0204", "0205", "0206", "0207", "0208", "0209", "0210",
"0211", "0212", "0301", "0302", "0303", "0304", "0305", "0306", "0307", "0308",
"0309", "0310", "0311", "0312", "0401", "0402", "0403", "0404", "0405", "0406", "0407",
"0408", "0409", "0410", "0411", "0412", "0501",
)
bb <- cls.read.data("benutzer", header=F, sep=";", quote="", col.names=ben.cols, month=months.all)
> b <- bb$all
b$month <- substring(bb$all$month, 3) b$year <- substring(bb$all$month, 1, 2)
I'm (still) new to R, so I guess there are more appropriate ways to collect the data. Regards, Thomas.