agricolae (version 1.2-6)

bar.group: Plotting the multiple comparison of means

Description

It plots bars of the averages of treatments to compare. It uses the objects generated by a procedure of comparison like LSD, HSD, Kruskall, Waller-Duncan, Friedman or Durbin. It can also display the 'average' value over each bar in a bar chart.

Usage

bar.group(x, horiz = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

Object created by a test of comparison

horiz

Horizontal or vertical bars

…

Parameters of the function barplot()

Value

x

Data frame

horiz

Logical TRUE or FALSE

...

Details

x: data frame formed by 5 columns: name of the bars, height and level of the bar.

See Also

LSD.test, HSD.test, kruskal , friedman, durbin.test, waller.test

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Example 1
library(agricolae)
data(sweetpotato)
model<-aov(yield~virus,data=sweetpotato)
comparison<- LSD.test(model,"virus",alpha=0.01,group=TRUE)
print(comparison$groups)
#startgraph
par(cex=1.5)
bar.group(comparison$groups,horiz=TRUE,density=8,col="blue",border="red",
xlim=c(0,50),las=1)
title(cex.main=0.8,main="Comparison between\ntreatment means",xlab="Yield",ylab="Virus")
#endgraph
# Example 2
library(agricolae)
x <- 1:4
y <- c(0.29, 0.44, 0.09, 0.49)
xy <- data.frame(x,y,y)
#startgraph
par(cex=1.5)
bar.group(xy,density=30,angle=90,col="brown",border=FALSE,ylim=c(0,0.6),lwd=2,las=1)
#endgraph
# }