[R] Multiple Plotting help (lines don't always connect)

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 15:04:07 CEST 2008


The real data are counts of aquatic insects at distinct locations on a
river continuum on the way down a river,  so the when a point point on
the graph is missing (lost sampling equipment for that month) the
points downstream (toward the right) are valid to show a trend.
Aren't they?

Stephen Sefick

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> There was a thread on this recently.  Solutions were posted to allow you
> to join interpolated points to ``real'' ones using a different line type.
> See
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/127669.html
>
>        cheers,
>
>                Rolf Turner
>
> On 18/08/2008, at 2:10 PM, jim holtman wrote:
>
>> You can also do:
>>
>> plot(approx(d[,1], d[,2], xout=d[,1]), type='b')
>>
>> This will interprete the values between the missing values, but it is
>> probably best to leave it as you first had it with the missing lines
>> so that you know there is something different in the data.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:55 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> d <- structure(c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 1,
>>> 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, NA, NA, NA, 14), .Dim = c(14L, 2L
>>> ), .Dimnames = list(NULL, c("a", "b")))
>>> plot(d, type="b")
>>>
>>> This is simplified, but Is there an option I am missing that will
>>> force all of the points to be joined by a line?
>>>
>>> Stephen Sefick
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
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-- 
Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

	-K. Mullis



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