[R] vertical kites in KiteChart (plotrix)

[Michael Bedward]

Hello Ellen,

First up I think you can use reshape to get your data into a form that
kiteChart will work with...

# assuming your matrix or data.frame is called X
Xwide <- reshape(X, timevar="depth", idvar="distance", direction="wide")

# replace NAs with 0 (don't think kiteChart likes NA)
Xwide[ is.na(Xwide) ] <- 0

kiteChart(Xwide)

I haven't considered all of your plot requirements here but hopefully
this will get you started.

Michael




On 13 October 2010 19:11, elpape <ellen.pape at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear everyone,
>
> I would like to create a kite chart in which I plot densities (width of the
> vertical kites) in relation to sediment depth (on reversed y-axis) for 6
> different locations (Distances from seep site, on x-axis on top of the
> plot). The dataset I would like to use is:
>
>
> Distance_from_seep_site Sedimentdepth   Density
> 1100    0       107.8
> 1100    1       264.6
> 1100    2       284.2
> 1100    3       470.4
> 1100    4       58.8
> 100     0       98
> 100     1       176.4
> 100     2       499.8
> 100     3       548.8
> 100     4       401.8
> 100     5       107.8
> 10      0       51.3
> 10      1       22.8
> 10      2       79.8
> 10      3       68.4
> 10      4       17.1
> 10      5       5.7
> 10      6       17.1
> 5       0       188.1
> 5       1       267.9
> 5       2       376.2
> 5       3       233.7
> 5       4       165.3
> 5       8       5.7
> 5       9       5.7
> 2       0       74.1
> 2       1       102.6
> 2       2       85.5
> 2       3       91.2
> 2       4       34.2
> 2       5       5.7
> 2       6       11.4
> 2       8       11.4
> 2       10      28.5
> 2       11      22.8
> 0       0       461.7
> 0       1       273.6
> 0       2       79.8
> 0       3       68.4
> 0       4       34.2
> 0       5       22.8
> 0       6       51.3
> 0       8       68.4
> 0       9       39.9
> 0       11      22.8
>
> I have tried to rearrange the data, but I do not seem to get the output that
> I desire...
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Thank you so much!
> Ellen
>
>
>
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