5 Jan
2003
5 Jan
'03
9:54 p.m.
A good question for the list.
Nirmala Ravishankar writes:
Dear Dave,
I am trying to plot incumbency by year using plot() and two numeric
variables year and psi. Using type = "b" gets R to generate all the dots
and connect them with lines, but it refuses to label the x-axis
accordingly (1970, 1972, 1974 etc.) Instead it has levels (1970, 1975,
1985 etc. I have tried using as.character(year), but that doesn't make
any difference. I also tried as.factor(year) but that generates steps
though it does label the years.
Any ideas?
Nothing comes to mind.
However, you will often get better answers to your questions, both
from us and from public course like R-help, if you simplify your
question and make it easy for others to play with. See my postings to
R-help for examples. You want to send a few lines of R code that
someone can copy and paste to see what results you are getting. In
your case, you don't need to send real data, just some lines that
create fake dataframe with a "year" variable and so on.
Dave
- Nirmala
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6 Jan
6 Jan
2:27 a.m.
Okay, so now I'm much more clear on what you're trying ot do...I know that
in xyplot, there's acommand to let you set the exact location of the tick
mark and assign a corresponding label to it. Unfortunately, I'm at a mac
right now, so I can't look it up for you... 8( I think it's under
help(panel.superpose). But you have to set each tick mark independently
and label it independently and it's in "native corrdinates" whatever that
means.
Olivia.
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dave Kane wrote:
A good question for the list.
Nirmala Ravishankar writes:
Dear Dave,
I am trying to plot incumbency by year using plot() and two numeric
variables year and psi. Using type = "b" gets R to generate all the dots
and connect them with lines, but it refuses to label the x-axis
accordingly (1970, 1972, 1974 etc.) Instead it has levels (1970, 1975,
1985 etc. I have tried using as.character(year), but that doesn't make
any difference. I also tried as.factor(year) but that generates steps
though it does label the years.
Any ideas?
Nothing comes to mind.
However, you will often get better answers to your questions, both
from us and from public course like R-help, if you simplify your
question and make it easy for others to play with. See my postings to
R-help for examples. You want to send a few lines of R code that
someone can copy and paste to see what results you are getting. In
your case, you don't need to send real data, just some lines that
create fake dataframe with a "year" variable and so on.
Dave
- Nirmala
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617-563-0122
dkane(a)latte.harvard.edu
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2:29 a.m.
Isn't going to R-help a voilation of the rules you set for the final? I
would have emailed that Bill guy at AT&T labs (who wrote the demo for
lattice) or that Indian fellow (who wrote all the help files), but I
thought that was "illegal" for the purposes of this exam...clarify?
Olivia.
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dave Kane wrote:
A good question for the list.
Nirmala Ravishankar writes:
Dear Dave,
I am trying to plot incumbency by year using plot() and two numeric
variables year and psi. Using type = "b" gets R to generate all the dots
and connect them with lines, but it refuses to label the x-axis
accordingly (1970, 1972, 1974 etc.) Instead it has levels (1970, 1975,
1985 etc. I have tried using as.character(year), but that doesn't make
any difference. I also tried as.factor(year) but that generates steps
though it does label the years.
Any ideas?
Nothing comes to mind.
However, you will often get better answers to your questions, both
from us and from public course like R-help, if you simplify your
question and make it easy for others to play with. See my postings to
R-help for examples. You want to send a few lines of R code that
someone can copy and paste to see what results you are getting. In
your case, you don't need to send real data, just some lines that
create fake dataframe with a "year" variable and so on.
Dave
- Nirmala
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617-563-0122
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1:51 p.m.
Olivia Lau writes:
Isn't going to R-help a voilation of the rules
you set for the final? I
would have emailed that Bill guy at AT&T labs (who wrote the demo for
lattice) or that Indian fellow (who wrote all the help files), but I
thought that was "illegal" for the purposes of this exam...clarify?
Good point. Let me clarify by saying that seeking outside help on purely
"technical" issues --- like R and LaTeX, things that are independent of the
substantive problem of incumbency effect and our particular data set --- is
fine. Indeed, it is even encouraged if you share your increased knowledge with
the list.
Asking your roommate the statistician about how to interpret the regression results
is not allowed.
Hope that this helps.
Dave
Olivia.
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dave Kane wrote:
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Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
A good question for the list.
Nirmala Ravishankar writes:
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Dear Dave,
I am trying to plot incumbency by year using plot() and two numeric
variables year and psi. Using type = "b" gets R to generate all the dots
and connect them with lines, but it refuses to label the x-axis
accordingly (1970, 1972, 1974 etc.) Instead it has levels (1970, 1975,
1985 etc. I have tried using as.character(year), but that doesn't make
any difference. I also tried as.factor(year) but that generates steps
though it does label the years.
Any ideas?
Nothing comes to mind.
However, you will often get better answers to your questions, both
from us and from public course like R-help, if you simplify your
question and make it easy for others to play with. See my postings to
R-help for examples. You want to send a few lines of R code that
someone can copy and paste to see what results you are getting. In
your case, you don't need to send real data, just some lines that
create fake dataframe with a "year" variable and so on.
Dave
- Nirmala
--
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617-563-0122
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