Re: [R] Titles in plots generated within tapply

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Dennis Malandro wrote:

> How would one go about putting titles in each of several plots
> that are generated from within a call to tapply? For example I'd
> like the following two barplots to have titles 'Group 1' and
> 'Group 2', where '1' and '2' come from the levels of 'group'.
>
> group <- gl(2, 10)
> result <- sample(c('A', 'B'), size=length(group), replace=TRUE)
> windows(7, 4)
> par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
> tapply(result, group,
> function(x) barplot(table(x), xlab = 'Result'))

You don't need tapply here (it is just lapply on split). Try

X <- split(result, group)
for(i in levels(group))

     barplot(table(X[[i]]), xlab = 'Result', main = paste("Group", i))

You could use lapply() rather than for(), but there would be no benefit.

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