[R] plot rownames

T.D.Rudolph prairie.picker at gmail.com
Wed May 28 20:17:35 CEST 2008


I did have the problem of not having two continuous variables and this
approach circumvents this, allowing me in fact to plot the rownames.  


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, T.D.Rudolph wrote:
> 
>>
>> In the following example:
>> x <- rnorm(1:100)
>> y <- seq(from=-2.5, to=3.5, by=0.5)
>> z <- as.matrix(table(cut(x,c(-Inf, y, +Inf))))
>>
>> ## I wish to transform the values in z
>> j <- log(z)
>>
>> ## Yet retain the row names
>> row.names(j)<-row.names(z)
> 
> Hmm.  The rownames were retained and row.names() is for data frames, 
> rownames() for matrices.
> 
>> Now, how can I go about creating a scatterplot with row.names(j) on the
>> x-axis and j(m:nrow(j)) on the y-axis?  Keep in mind the transformation I
>> am
>> conducting is more complicated and therefore cannot be plotted directly
>> using log(z), which places me in this unique position.
> 
> You will need to explain what exactly you want plotted.  A scatterplot is 
> of two continuous variables and you only have one (and 'j(m:nrow(j))' is 
> invaild R). But here is one possibility to get you started:
> 
> m <- nrow(j)
> plot(j, xaxt="n", xlab="")
> axis(1, 1:m, rownames(j), las=2)
> 
> 
>>
>> Tyler
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