I'd like to plot multiple lines in R for this dataset: (x = Year, y = Value)
School_ID Year Value
A 1998 5
B 1998 10
C 1999 15
A 2000 7
B 2005 15
Each school has data for different years. I'd like to have one line for each school.
Let's create some data:
dd = data.frame(School_ID = c("A", "B", "C", "A", "B"),
Year = c(1998, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005),
Value = c(5, 10, 15, 7, 15))
Then to create a plot in base graphics, we create an initial plot of one group:
plot(dd$Year[dd$School_ID=="A"], dd$Value[dd$School_ID=="A"], type="b",
xlim=range(dd$Year), ylim=range(dd$Value))
then iteratively add on the lines:
lines(dd$Year[dd$School_ID=="B"], dd$Value[dd$School_ID=="B"], col=2, type="b")
lines(dd$Year[dd$School_ID=="C"], dd$Value[dd$School_ID=="C"], col=3, type="b")
I've used type="b"
to show the points and the lines.
Alternatively, using ggplot2:
require(ggplot2)
##The values Year, Value, School_ID are
##inherited by the geoms
ggplot(dd, aes(Year, Value,colour=School_ID)) +
geom_line() +
geom_point()