[R] Multiple line-plot

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Fri Feb 17 03:12:49 CET 2012


What are you expecting to get?

At the moment it appears that you are just ploting one data vector.  table() is giving you a one row table.

BTW you probably should not use data as a data.frame name. It is a reserved word.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: studerov at gmail.com
> Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0100
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Multiple line-plot
> 
> Hello everybody!
> 
> I have again another newbie-question. I was trying to plot three curves
> within one single
> plot: Crime development (relative frequencies) according to the hours of
> tv
> consume per week (high/low/all together).
> Here are the data:
> 
> par(mfrow=c(1,1))
> # Data input
> tvHrs<-c(21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14)
> crimeDvp<-c(2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,5,5,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,4,5,5)
> 
> crimeDvp<-factor(crimeDvp, levels=1:5,
> labels=c("strongly\nincreased","increased","equal","decreased","strongly\ndecreased"),
> ordered=T)
> data<-data.frame(tvHrs, crimeDvp)
> 
> # Plotting lines
> plot(prop.table(table(crimeDvp)), type='b', ylab='percent', xlab='crime
> development')
> legend("topright", inset=.05, title="TV consume", c("high","low","all"),
> fill=c("red","black","green"))
> 
> 
> I have experimented with the lines()-function, but couldnt do it. Thank
> you
> for any hints!
> 
> David
> 
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