[R] dot chart adding group labels....HELP

Jannis bt_jannis at yahoo.de
Mon Feb 28 21:31:15 CET 2011


No idea what this dotchart is actually meant to visualize but naming the 
columns of the data matrix gives you names for your groups which are 
also used to label the plot.

?dimnames
?colnames


HTH
Jannis

On 02/28/2011 06:13 PM, David Lyon wrote:
> HI everyone
>
>
> Does anayone know how to add group labels to dot charts
> > From the R code below
>
>
> a<-read.table("test2", sep="\t", header=TRUE)
> dotchart(as.matrix(t()), main="test")
>
>
> it generates from the datafile input below,
>
> file test2 containing:
> A	B	C	D	E
> 1	1	1	1	0.2068594
> 1	0.2386699	1	1	0.3959740
> 1	0.3965243	1	1	1.0000000
> 1	1.0000000	1	1	0.3329179
> 1	1.0000000	1	1	0.4873605
>
>
> It gives by default the group labels "1","2","3","4" and "5"
>
> How do I change the group labels from the default "1","2","3","4" and "5" to something more useful say "place1","place2", "place3", "place4", "place5"
>
> A BIG thanks in advance!
>
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