Dr. med. Peter Robinson wrote: > Dear R'ers, > > I would like to use barplot or a similar function to plot data > demonstrating the distribution of the length of a kind of conservation in > about 25000 DNA sequences. My data look like this: > ... > > Therefore, I would like to show the column representing 0 (with 19936 > sequences) "cut" so it doesn't dominate the rest of the plot. Also, > starting from about 10 sequences, I would like to group the rest of the > sequences into groups of 5 each (for instance, 10-15, 16-20, 21-25 etc). >
Hi Peter, Have a look at gap.barplot in the plotrix package. I would suggest something like this: gap.barplot(y,c(500,19800),main="Skewed distribution", yaxlab=c(200,400,19900),ytics=c(200,400,19900)) where y is the right column of your data. Jim ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
