Message-ID: <4DAC57FF.5050405@ucalgary.ca>
Date: 2011-04-18T15:25:51Z
From: Peter Ehlers
Subject: side by side histogram after splitting data by year
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim6h+iehjzHDidgGs9ZfKXmGeCrrA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-04-17 16:29, jim holtman wrote:
> Will one of these do it for you:
>
>> str(x)
> 'data.frame': 550 obs. of 5 variables:
> $ year : Factor w/ 2 levels "one","two": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
> $ size : Factor w/ 2 levels "large","small": 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ...
> $ distance: num 30.9 121.5 46.1 46.1 46.1 ...
> $ taken : int 10 2 12 1 4 1 10 3 5 5 ...
> $ mass : num 13.88 2.78 16.65 1.39 5.55 ...
>> require(lattice)
>> histogram(~taken|year, x)
>> histogram(~taken|year*size, x)
>>
Jeff,
I would use lattice (or ggplot2) as well. But you
may want to look at the histbackback() function in
pkg Hmisc.
Peter Ehlers
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>
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stratford, Jeffrey
> <jeffrey.stratford at wilkes.edu> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm looking to produce a side-by-side histogram of the number of trips
>> taken by jays with a particular number of acorns after accounting for
>> year (year "one" and year "two"). I know this involves indexing first
>> then creating a histogram but I'm not sure how I'd do this. I want to
>> explore the possibilities that jays are altering their strategies in
>> different years. Data are below.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a common need for myself so any help would be greatly
>> appreciated!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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> --
> Jim Holtman
> Data Munger Guru
>
> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>
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