Hi Maria,
What happens is that R plots with boxplots (explaining the horizontal
lines, i.e. boxes with n=1) when the x-variable is a factor.
What you can do is transform your Sample column into numeric and then
plot it, with some adjustment of axis labels.
For example:
datf <- data.frame(Sample=c("M1","M2","M3","M4","M5"),
Cu=c(1,2.5,1.15,2,8), Zn=c(5,11,11,4,15), Mn=c(10,8,12,30,35))
datf$Sample2 <- as.numeric(datf$Sample)
with(datf, plot(Sample2, Cu, type="l", lty=1, col="red", xaxt="n"))
axis(1, at=datf$Sample2, labels=datf$Sample)
It might not be the easiest/best approach though... Someone here might
have a better idea.
HTH,
Ivan
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Le 05/12/2016 ? 13:25, Maria Lathouri via R-help a ?crit :
Dear all
I know that my question is very simple but although I tried to find an answer online, I couldn't and I am stuck.
I have a dataset of three numerical variables measured in different samples ID. Something like this:
Sample Cu Zn MnM1 1 5 10M2 2.5 11 8M3 1.15 11 12 M4 2 4 30M5 8 15 35
I would like to plot these variables (Cu, Zn, Mn) (in y-axis) against the Sample ID (in x-axis) in a scatter plot with lines as I want to see how they change in the samples.
I tried using the command>plot(Sample, Cu, type="l", lty=1, col="red")
but I wouldn't get a line. Actually, I would get some small horizontal lines in each point. I tried to use type="p" but I would get the same thing.
I would very much appreciate if you could help me on that. Apparently, I am missing something.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,Maria
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