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Subject: summary: simple scatter plot question
From: Gianfranco MASTRACCHIO <gianfranco.mastracchio@st.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:37:08 +0200
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Thank you Jean and Patrick for your simple and very S-instructive anwer.
My question and their anwers here below.

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Gianfranco MASTRACCHIO wrote:

>I have a df with say 5 columns, being 10-long vectors, corresponding to 
>10 repeated measures performed at 5 different temperatures. I want a 
>simple scatter plot or boxplot, with Y being the 50 measured values and 
>x the temperature level.
>
>It is possible by trasforming the df from 10x5 to 50x1 and adding a new 
>col for x axis and using plot or boxplot, but I wonder if there is a 
>more direct way....
>
>using S+ 6.2 under win XP
>
>thanks in advance
>Gianfranco 

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Here's a simple scatter plot: 

df <- data.frame(matrix(sample(50), ncol=5)) 
temps <- c(10, 15, 18, 20, 25) 
plot(temps[as.vector(col(df))], unlist(df)) 

JVA 

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Jean V. Adams
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I haven't tried this, but something like the following should work:

plot(temperatures[col(x)], x)

If 'x' is a data frame, you may have to say

as.matrix(x)

Patrick Burns
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