Plotting multiple columns on same graph
Andrew, What about preprocessing the dataset to remove NAs? eomit<-na.omit(efficacy.df) attach(eomit) rs<-cbind(complicated, havesay, dontcare) matplot(year, rs) matlines(year, rs) Scot -- Scot W. McNary email:smcnary at charm.net
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
I'd like to produce a series of simple line graphs for my methods class that show the three questions used on a repeated survey to make up a particular index. The data frame is:
efficacy.df
year complicated havesay dontcare 1 1952 71 68 63 2 1954 NA NA NA 3 1956 64 71 71 4 1958 NA NA NA 5 1960 59 72 73 6 1962 NA NA NA 7 1964 67 70 62 8 1966 69 60 57 9 1968 71 58 55 10 1970 73 64 50 11 1972 74 59 49 12 1974 72 57 46 13 1976 70 56 44 14 1978 NA 53 45 15 1980 71 59 43 16 1982 NA 52 50 17 1984 70 68 57 18 1986 66 NA 43 19 1988 66 50 37 20 1990 65 34 23 21 1992 63 57 37 22 1994 73 34 22 23 1996 60 38 24 24 1998 71 46 25 25 2000 NA 50 33 The ideal graph will show each of the three questions as a different color line, with lines connecting years spanned by NA values. What's the easiest way to do this? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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