On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Jennifer Sabatier wrote:

Hi R-List,

I have a question regarding R-language formats, I think. I am producing a series of graphs (using plot, barplot, barchart, and bwplot, using either text or mtext to place values on the graphs) and tables for a Francophone country. In fact, I have already done so. However, while they are pleased with the results they've requested I convert all of my decimal points into
the French format which uses commas rather than points.

?options

OutDec: character string containing a single-byte character. The character to be used as the decimal point in output conversions, that is in printing, plotting and as.character but not deparsing.

--
DAvid.
I have no idea how
to do this for the graphs, despite searching the help, other than to convert all of my statistics into strings and manually reset the decimal separators, which would take a long time. Is there some quick and easy way? It's only the graphs I need assistance with. For tables I simply output to excel and
it's easy to change them there.

Here's an example (I'm sure it's crude but I'm still new at R. To make the graph look right you have to expand the java window...which I'm sure you
don't need to do if you know how to do this in a more elegant manner):


sites <- c("Kayes", "Kita", "Koulikoro", "Fana", "Sikasso", "Koutiala",
"SgFam", "SgHop", "Bla", "Mopti", "Douentz", "Tombc",
"Dire ","Gao ","Ansongo","Kidal","Tessalit","BkoCommI","BkoCommIII","BkoCommV")
size <-
list (2.91,2.36,5.09,3.21,2.27,4.09,2.31,2.76,1.2,2.03,3.06,0.53,1.43,1.83,1,0.93,0,4.01,4.13,3.47 )
site_size <- data.frame(cbind(sites, size))
newdata <- (sapply(subset(site_size, select=c("size")), as.numeric))
rownames(newdata) <- site_size$sites

library(grid)

plot(newdata, ylab =" ", xlab= " " , axes = FALSE)#, type="h", lwd=16)
points(newdata, cex = 10, col = topo.colors(20), bg=topo.colors(20), pch=22)
lines(newdata, type="h", lwd=40, col=topo.colors(20))
axis(1, at=seq(1, 20, by=1), labels = FALSE)
text(seq(1, 20, by=1), par("usr")[3] - 0.2, labels = site2_labels, srt = 45,
pos = 1, xpd = TRUE)
reg.txt <- as.character(c(" Kayes Koulikoro Sikasso Segou Mopti Tombouctou Gao Kidal
                  Bamako"))
mtext(paste(reg.txt), side=3, font=4, cex=1, adj=0)#, outer=T)
text(0, 5.35, "Region:", cex = 1, font=4, xpd=T)
text(0, -.5, "Sites:", cex=1.2, font=1, xpd=T)
abline(v=c(2.5, 4.5, 6.5, 9.5, 11.5, 13.5, 15.5, 17.5))
axis(2, at=3, labels = FALSE)
mtext(paste("VIH Prevalence (%)"), side=2, font=2, cex=1.2)
text(1,3, labels=newdata[1], col="white", cex=1.5);text(2,2.45,
labels=newdata[2], col="white", cex=1.5)
text(3,5.2, labels=newdata[3], col="white", cex=1.5);text(4,3.27,
labels=newdata[4], col="white", cex=1.5)
text(5,2.35, labels=newdata[5], col="white", cex=1.5);text(6,4.2,
labels=newdata[6], col="white", cex=1.5)
text(7,2.36, labels=newdata[7], col="black", cex=1.5);text(8,2.85,
labels=newdata[8], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(9,1.28, labels=newdata[9], col="black", cex=1.5);text(10,2.1,
labels=newdata[10], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(11,3.13, labels=newdata[11], col="black", cex=1.5);text(12,.6,
labels=newdata[12], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(13,1.48, labels=newdata[13], col="black", cex=1.5);text(14,1.9,
labels=newdata[14], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(15,1.05, labels=newdata[15], col="black", cex=1.5);text(16,1,
labels=newdata[16], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(17,.1, labels=newdata[17], col="black", cex=1.5);text(18,4.1,
labels=newdata[18], col="black", cex=1.5)
text(19,4.2, labels=newdata[19], col="black", cex=1.5);text(20,3.55,
labels=newdata[20], col="black", cex=1.5)



David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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