[R] Two factors -> nurical data dependency analyzing

Evgeniy Kachalin ka4alin at yandex.ru
Sun Feb 19 17:52:48 CET 2006


Prof Brian Ripley ?????:
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Evgeniy Kachalin wrote:
>
>> Hello, dear R users.
>>
>> What is the easiest and the most visualli understandable way to analize
>> dependency of numerical variable on two factors?
>
> interaction.plot() is a good start.
>
>> Is the
>> boxplot(y~f1+f2) the good way? It seems that this formula does not work.
>
> No, nor is it documented to: the help page is there to help you. You 
> need a single factor as the grouping, so make one via an interaction.
> boxplot(y ~ f1:f2) should work. E.g.
>
> library(MASS)
> boxplot(FL ~ sex:sp, data=crabs)
>
> Another idea is to use lattice's bwplot. E.g.
>
> library(lattice)
> bwplot(FL ~ sex | sp, data=crabs)

Ideally it would be a tree of factors with mean as leaves. May be you 
could hint me direction to search for a graph.




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