Re: Q:BarChart, MultipleListPlot
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg2534] Re: Q:BarChart, MultipleListPlot
- From: Jorma Virtamo <jorma.virtamo at vtt.fi>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:19:08 -0500
ianc at wri.com (Ian Collier) wrote:
>In article <48bvsj$3f2 at ralph.vnet.net>, Sascha at sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de,
>Unzicker at lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>
>> Maybe a stupid question:
>>
>> Let a be a two-dimensional list.
>> Instead of
>> BarChart[a[[1]],a[[2]],a[[3]],a[[4]]....]
>> I would prefer
>> BarChart[a]
>> or BarChart[Table[a[[n]],{n,4}]]
>>
>> but Mathematica does not like it. Same thing with MultipleListPlot.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alexander
>
>You can do this by converting the list of lists to a Sequence of
>lists by Applying Sequence to the 2 dimensional list.
>
>Here is an example using both BarChart and MultipleListPlot.
>
>In[68]:=
> data = Table[ Random[], {4},{6} ]
>Out[68]=
> {{0.648428, 0.230811, 0.442376, 0.115264, 0.966736,
> 0.650595}, {0.958428, 0.752209, 0.648651, 0.164096,
> 0.640159, 0.528314}, {0.892881, 0.928036, 0.557503,
> 0.928651, 0.87035, 0.261039},
> {0.874639, 0.531127, 0.635694, 0.394648, 0.093287,
> 0.735063}}
>
>In[69]:=
> Needs[ "Graphics`Graphics`" ]
>In[70]:=
> ?BarChart
>
> BarChart[list1, list2, ...] generates a bar chart of the
> data in the lists.
>
>In[71]:=
> ?Sequence
>
> Sequence[e1,e2,...] is a special form representing a
> sequence of arguments in an expression.
>
>In[72]:=
> Apply[ Sequence, data ]
>Out[72]=
> Sequence[{0.648428, 0.230811, 0.442376, 0.115264, 0.966736,
> 0.650595}, {0.958428, 0.752209, 0.648651, 0.164096,
> 0.640159, 0.528314}, {0.892881, 0.928036, 0.557503,
> 0.928651, 0.87035, 0.261039},
> {0.874639, 0.531127, 0.635694, 0.394648, 0.093287,
> 0.735063}]
>
>In[73]:=
> BarChart[ Apply[ Sequence, data ] ]
>Out[73]=
> -Graphics-
>
>In[74]:=
> Needs[ "Graphics`MultipleListPlot`" ]
>
>In[75]:=
> MultipleListPlot[ Apply[ Sequence, data ] ,
> PlotJoined -> True]
>Out[75]=
> -Graphics-
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>--Ian
>
Wouldn't it be simpler just to write
BarChart @@ data
and
MultipleListPlot @@ Append[data, PlotJoined -> True]
or
MultipleListPlot[##, PlotJoined -> True]& @@ data
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