[R] Hmisc xYplot

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Erin Berryman wrote:
> Dear R community,
> 
> I am having trouble with a particular plot that I am trying to produce 
> using Hmisc's xYplot function. I've been using primarily lattice and 
> Hmisc packages for my plotting needs for the past few years, with great 
> success.
> However, what I want to do now with xYplot is plot more than one data 
> trend in the same panel, much as I would use xyplot from package lattice 
> in conjunction with superpose, with type="b". My problem is I can't get 
> the error bars to plot when I use xYplot this way. I've attached my data 
> set for reference.
> 
> Here are my inputs:
> 
>  >p1sum<-read.csv(file="p1sum.csv", header=T)
>  >library(Hmisc)
>  >xYplot(Cbind(DRP, SE) + Cbind(Fe, FeSE) ~ Day | Group + Port,  p1sum, 
> type='b')
> 
> The plotted result is two lines per panel, one labeled "Cbind(DRP, SE)" 
> and the other labeled "Cbind(Fe, FeSE). However, the error bars are not 
> plotted at all (I want the error bars to be DRP +/- SE, and Fe +/- 
> FeSE). Any advice on this is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Erin

xYplot does not accept multiple Cbind terms.  You'll have to string out 
your data "tall and thin" to construct a single Cbind(Y, SE) and use 
superposition with groups=.

Sometimes confidence intervals are better than using +-SE, which also 
has the advantage of allowing the intervals to be asymmetric.

Frank
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> Erin Berryman
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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
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