[R] help on barplot

[Marc Schwartz]

No practical difference in this case. Either way you end up with the
matrix rotated 90 degrees.

Presumably t(d) for a large d would be faster, however at 11:30 last
night, using rbind() for some reason was the first approach that came to
mind...  ;-)

Marc


On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 08:30, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Please relieve me my ignorance on one point:  How does "rbind(d[, 1], 
> d[, 2])" differe from "t(d)"?
> 
> Thanks, Spencer Graves
> 
> Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 21:16, Murad Nayal wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am trying to compare two histograms using barplot. the idea is to plot
> >>the histograms as pairs of columns side by side for each x value. I was
> >>able to do it using barplot before but I can't remember now for the life
> >>of me now how I did it in the past:
> >>
> >>
> >>>d
> >>
> >>              [,1]         [,2]
> >>-37.5 0.0000000000 2.789396e-05
> >>-32.5 0.0001394700 5.578801e-05
> >>-27.5 0.0019804742 1.732218e-02
> >>-22.5 0.0217294282 1.380474e-01
> >>-17.5 0.0938912134 4.005579e-02
> >>-12.5 0.0630683403 4.351464e-03
> >>-7.5  0.0163179916 8.368201e-05
> >>-2.5  0.0025941423 5.578801e-05
> >>2.5   0.0002789400 0.000000e+00
> >>7.5   0.0000000000 0.000000e+00
> >>
> >>
> >>>barplot(d,beside=TRUE)
> >>
> >>barplot here plots two separate 'sets' of columns, on the left side a
> >>bar plot of d[,1] is plotted while on the right side a separate bar plot
> >>of d[,2] is plotted. how can I combine the two?
> >>
> >>actually, while on the subject of histograms. is it possible to plot a
> >>3D-histogram in R (a true 3D bar plot, without using image).
> >>
> >>many thanks
> >>Murad
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > You need to restructure the data passed to barplot() so that the two
> > 'height' related columns are converted to 2 rows of 10 columns. Each
> > column is then drawn as pairs of bars:
> > 
> > barplot(rbind(d[, 1], d[, 2]), beside = TRUE)
> > 
> > Take a look at the change in structure as a result of:
> > 
> > rbind(d[, 1], d[, 2])
> > 
> > In terms of 3d histograms, it would appear that Duncan Murdoch, Daniel
> > Adler et al are working on porting Duncan's Windows only DJMRGL package
> > (http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software) to multiple platforms
> > at (http://wsopuppenkiste.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/~dadler/rgl). If my
> > read is correct, it looks like they have some of the primitives ready to
> > go at this time, but perhaps have not yet converted Duncan's hist3d()
> > function.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz
> > 
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