[R] Entering Data Files

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Wed Jul 18 23:24:09 CEST 2012


Hello,

Sorry, I forgot the barplot.


dmelt <- melt(d, id.vars=c("Live", "Age"), measure.vars="Count")
wide <- dcast(Live ~ Age, data = dmelt)

col <- rainbow(4)
barplot(as.matrix(wide[, 2:5]), beside=T, col=col)
legend("topleft", wide[, 1], fill=col)


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 18-07-2012 22:19, Rui Barradas escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> Install package 'reshape2' and try the following.
>
>
> #install.packages('reshape2')
> library(reshape2)
>
> d <- read.table(text="
> Live    Age    Count
> Parents    Age19    324
> Another    Age19    37
> OwnPlace    Age19    116
> Group    Age19    58
> Other    Age19    5
> Parents    Age20    378
> Another    Age20    47
> OwnPlace    Age20    279
> Group    Age20    60
> Other    Age20    2
> Parents    Age21    337
> Another    Age21    40
> OwnPlace    Age21    372
> Group    Age21    49
> Other    Age21    3
> Parents    Age22    318
> Another    Age22    38
> OwnPlace    Age22    487
> Group    Age22    25
> Other    Age22    9
> ", header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> d
>
> dmelt <- melt(d, id.vars=c("Live", "Age"), measure.vars="Count")
> dcast(Live ~ Age, data = dmelt)
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 18-07-2012 21:35, darnold escreveu:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Entering data from a given file is the hardest part of learning R for me.
>> For example, I have this datafile from Moore's text:
>>
>> Live    Age    Count
>> Parents    Age19    324
>> Another    Age19    37
>> OwnPlace    Age19    116
>> Group    Age19    58
>> Other    Age19    5
>> Parents    Age20    378
>> Another    Age20    47
>> OwnPlace    Age20    279
>> Group    Age20    60
>> Other    Age20    2
>> Parents    Age21    337
>> Another    Age21    40
>> OwnPlace    Age21    372
>> Group    Age21    49
>> Other    Age21    3
>> Parents    Age22    318
>> Another    Age22    38
>> OwnPlace    Age22    487
>> Group    Age22    25
>> Other    Age22    9
>>
>> I can manually enter the numbers and create my table and barplot.
>>
>> x <- matrix(c(324, 378, 337, 318, 37, 47, 40, 38, 116, 279, 372, 487, 58,
>> 60, 49, 25, 5, 2, 3, 9), c(5,4),byrow=T)
>> rownames(x)=c("Parents","Another","OwnPlace","Group","Other")
>> colnames(x)=c("Age19","Age20","Age21","Age22")
>> x <- as.table(x)
>>
>> barplot(x,beside=T)
>>
>> But it would be nice to be able to read the data from the file,
>> arrange it
>> using R, then plot, if that is possible. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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