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Re: Plotting time series in an xyplot

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Subject: Re: Plotting time series in an xyplot
From: "Crawford.Winnie" <crawford.winnie@ensco.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:31:50 -0400
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Thread-topic: [S] Plotting time series in an xyplot
Walt -

I was doing self-training on time series plots this weekend - not fun.
Did you try par(mfrow=c(2,2)) to create a four-panel area? If you do
that, I think you can create any plot in the four spots, including a
time series plot. Look in Guide to Graphics pg 33. Someone on the list
please correct me if I'm wrong.

Win Crawford

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Subject: [S] Plotting time series in an xyplot

Good morning,

I have a data frame with four variables: quarter, year, count of delays 
in a category, the category label.  There are four categories (A, B, C, 
and D), four years (2005 - 2008), and four quarters per year, so there 
are 64 rows.  Some data may look like:

quarter    year    count    category
1            2005   10         A
2            2005   5           A
3            2005   12         A
4            2005    8          A
...
4            2008     1         D

I want to create a four panel chart (one panel for each category) with 
the quarter/year on the x-axis as a time series and the count on the 
vertical of each panel.  XYPLOT only allows (as far as I can tell), two 
numerics for plotting.  But I want time on the x-axis.  The function 
plot.timeSeries creates the type of chart I want, but not in a panel.  
How can I create my panel chart?  Any advise?  I would like something 
like xyplot(timeSeries(x) ~ count | category, data = x).

I'm using S+ 8 on Windows Vista.

Thanks,

Walt



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