[R] Graphing a subset of data

[Jim Lemon]

Hi Alexandra,
I think you are going about this in an excessively difficult way. Here is a
rough example:

graphit<-function(x,var,type,subset=NA,...){
 if(!is.na(subset[1])) x<-subset(x,subset)
 do.call(type,list(x=x[[var]],...))
}
# assume that the data are measurements of penetration by crossbow bolts at
specified speeds
bolts<-data.frame(SPEED1=rep(1:3,each=30),
 penetration=c(runif(30,10,15),runif(30,15,20),runif(30,20,25)))
# note the lazy way of adding arguments to the function call
graphit(bolts,"SPEED1",boxplot,main="Boxplot of SPEED1")
graphit(bolts,"penetration",boxplot,subset=bolts$SPEED1==3,
 main="Boxplot of SPEED1 == 3")
graphit(bolts,"SPEED1",hist,main="Histogram of SPEED1")

Jim

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