[R] bubble plots

Edzer Pebesma e.j.pebesma at zonnet.nl
Tue Sep 21 15:41:44 CEST 2004


Jacques, please try the following:

 > z=factor(c('a', 'b','c'))
 > z
[1] a b c
Levels: a b c
 > x = c(1,2,3)
 > y = c(3,2,1)
 > xyplot(y~x,groups=z,auto.key=T,asp=diff(range(y))/diff(range(x)))

the asp argument takes care of one unit in x being equal to one unit in y.
If you add e.g. pch=z to vary symbols, auto.key will have to be replaced
by the more complex key argument, see ?xyplot

Color and symbol type are better to distinguish factor variables than
size is, so I'd recommend using xyplot rather than bubble (which uses
xyplot to plot bubbles)
--
Edzer




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