[R] a very particular plot

[Hadley Wickham]

Hi Ian,

Have a look at the examples in http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_tile.html
for some ideas on how to do this with ggplot2.

Hadley

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ian Bentley <ian.bentley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the really great help I've received on this board in the past.
>
> I have a very particular graph that I'm trying to plot, and I'm not really
> sure how to do it.  I think I should be able to use ggplot for this, but I'm
> not really sure how.
>
> I have a data.frame which contains fifty sub frames containing one hundred
> data points each.
>
> I can do a histogram of each of these sub frames individually, and see the
> distribution.  I can also plot the mean & standard deviation of the fifty
> together in one plot, where the x axis identifies the subframe to which it
> refers.
>
> What I'd like to do is combine these two things, so that I have a 2 -d
> graph.
>
> The x axis specifies the sub-frame.
> The y axis is just the data.
>
> Each x column plots the minimum of the data in the sub frame, the maximum,
> and the median, as points.  AND each x column also displays histogram data,
> so that the y values which have more density in the subframe are darker, and
> the ones with less density are lighter.
>
> I know this is fairly particular, and may not be possible, but it would be
> really great for me!
>
> If anyone can help - thanks!
>
> --
> Ian Bentley
> M.Sc. Candidate
> Queen's University
> Kingston, Ontario
>
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