[R] Need a help to plot bar for time series Rain data

[Jim Lemon]

On 07/30/2010 06:51 PM, Nyanzura wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
> I am quite new to R, am trying to plot a bar plot for my monthly rainfall
> data from 1920 to 1990. For every year I have the data from January to
> December. I have created this code:
>
> data<-read.table("C://R//Data//Rain.txt", header=TRUE)
> data<-data[,2:13]
> Rdata<-data[1,]
> for(i in 2:79){Rdata<-c(Rdata,data[i,])}
> times<-ts(Rdata,start=1920,frequency=12)
> pdf("plot_Rain",width=20,height=5)
> barplot(times)
>
> I am getting this error:
>
> Error in barplot.default(times) : 'height' must be a vector or a matrix
>
> Could anyone please tell me how should I specify/write the code to plot the
> bars??
>
Hi Nyanzura,
I guess the first thing would be to see what:

class(times)

has to say. However, a plot with 852 bars might be a little hard to 
interpret.

Jim