[R] Plotting averages of y per x

[Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen]

Gregor GORJANC wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I often plot average of y instead of all y values, since one can 
> easily see the trend if there is to many points and/or x might be like 
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... and you might get a cloud (which can also be 
> informative) and/or columns of points.
>
> Anyway, learning with R i get stucked. I have the data in table 
> burnins1, with the following names:
>
> names(burnins1)
> [1] "Model"       "Replication" "h2"          "burnin"
>
> and some data
> ...
> ...
> 380    New          80  2     23
> 381    New          81  5     38
> 382    New          82 10     31
> 383    New          83 15     98
> 384    New          84 20     32
> 385    New          85 40     30
> 386    New          86  1     43
> 387    New          87  2     53
> 388    New          88  5     36
> 389    New          89 10     51
> 390    New          90 15     19
> ...
> ...
>
> So I want to plot mean of variable burnin by variables model and h2. I 
> compute means with
>
> tmp <- as.data.frame(t(tapply(burnin, list(Model, h2), mean)))
>
> and table tmp looks like this
>
>      Old   New
> 1  31.00 29.36
> 2  30.30 28.34
> 5  32.92 30.66
> 10 39.00 37.54
> 15 40.66 34.07
> 20 39.29 35.94
> 40 28.63 28.51
>
> Now I want to launch something like
> plot(tmp[, 0], Old)
> points(tmp[, 0], New, pch = 20)
>
There is no column 0. R starts counting at 1. Try something like
plot(as.numeric(rownames(tmp)), tmp[,"Old"])
(not tested)

Kjetil

> and it gives me the error
>
> Error in pairs.default(x, ...) : non-numeric argument to pairs
>
> I guess that I am having problem with tmp[, 0]. If I use
>
> plot(Old)
> points(New, pch = 20)
>
> I get the plot, but abscisa is numbered from 1 to 7 not 1, 2, 5, 10, 
> 15, 20 and 40. Does anyone have any sugestions?
>
> I would also like to produce table like this, so plotting would be 
> easier, since there would be no need to use points() and/or lines() 
> commands to add another group.
>
>   Model h2 mean
> 1  Old  1  31.00
> 2  Old  2  30.30
> 3  Old  5  32.92
> 4  Old  10 39.00
> 5  Old  15 40.66
> 6  Old  20 39.29
> 7  Old  40 28.63
> 8  Old  1  29.36
> 9  Old  2  28.34
> 10 Old  5  30.66
> 11 Old  10 37.54
> 12 Old  15 34.07
> 13 Old  20 35.94
> 14 Old  40 28.51
>
>


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