R Users, I have not been able to find anything close to what I want searching R-help and I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
The data consists of differences in length of individual salamanders collected at time of initial capture and last recapture (excerpt below). What I am trying to do is plot a vertical line for each individual (ID) representing the change in size between initial capture (CAPTURESVL) and last recapture (RECAPSVL) (the range of sizes would be on the y-axis), hence vertical line length would be equal to GROWTH (which can be + or -). I would like to make this plot over the time between recaptures (MONTHELAPSED) which would be on the x-axis. ID CAPMONTH CAPTURESVL CAPTUREMASSGR RECAPMONTH RECAPSVL RECAPMASSGR GROWTH MASSGR MONTHELAPSED 1 SJC8 3 21 0.1 11 22 0.2 1 0.1 8 2 SJC9 3 33 0.7 13 35 0.9 2 0.2 10 3 SJC10 3 19 0.5 9 20 0.2 1 -0.3 6 4 SJC11 4 36 1.1 13 41 1.5 5 0.4 9 5 SJC12 4 19 0.1 15 28 0.4 9 0.3 11 6 SJC17 6 24 0.3 11 26 0.4 2 0.1 5 7 SJC18 6 43 1.1 24 43 1.8 0 0.7 18 8 SJC23 7 16 0.1 15 20 0.1 4 0.0 8 9 SJC24 7 22 0.5 22 40 1.9 18 1.4 15 10 SJC25 8 23 0.4 15 27 0.6 4 0.2 7 11 SJC32 9 37 1.1 16 38 1.5 1 0.4 7 12 SJC34 9 31 0.8 12 33 1.1 2 0.3 3 13 SJC35 9 19 0.2 14 23 0.3 4 0.1 5 14 SJC53 11 41 1.2 12 40 1.4 -1 0.2 1 15 SJC55 11 41 1.3 12 40 1.7 -1 0.4 1 16 SJC60 11 39 1.5 22 41 1.8 2 0.3 11 17 SJC65 12 41 1.5 23 44 1.8 3 0.3 11 I am stuck on how to 1) create the vertical segments and 2) link them to x-axis values for MONTHELAPSED? I would have provided some example code, except I have not been able to figure out how to approach this yet. Since I am probably not looking in the right place, could someone point me in the right direction or towards some example figure code/help files that I must have missed in my searching? Thanks, Bret TX A&M platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 0.1 year 2004 month 11 day 15 language R ______________________________________________ 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