[R] Horizontal bar plot for lengthy data

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Mon Aug 5 22:30:24 CEST 2013


... and also have a look at ?dotplot.

-- Bert

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter at gene.com> wrote:
> If you insist on bars instead of points, then have a look at the type
> ="h" argument to plot.default().
>
> In general, designing an effective plot typically depends both on the
> nature of the subject matter, the data, and the intended audience, so
> it is difficult (for me, anyway) to give a useful generic answer.
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Christofer Bogaso
> <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Please consider my data-frame:
>>
>> My_DF <- data.frame(Names = as.character(1:2000), Values = 1:2000)
>>
>> Now I want to create a Horizontal bar plot for this data:
>>
>> barplot(My_DF$Values, main="Bar Plot", horiz=TRUE, names.arg=My_DF$Names)
>>
>> You see the entire plot is messed-up. As I have to work with such lengthy
>> data, is there any possibility with R on how I can plot the entire data-set
>> clearly?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
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