[Traminer-users] plots with group option vs separate plots

Alexis Gabadinho alexis.gabadinho at unige.ch
Mon Mar 24 15:54:54 CET 2014


Hi Pierre,

I suppose that there is a problem when defining your sequence object.

What do you get when typing

ncol(names_of_your_sequence_object)

?

Best,
Alexis


Le 23. 03. 14 18:01, Pierre Blavier a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
>
> here is a plot from the TramineR seqiplot command. It gives the first 
> 10 sequences of my dataset, all my sequences are 21 period-long. Does 
> anyone know how to reduce the length of the x-axis to have a length of 
> the longest sequence, i.e. 21 periods ? It's probably simple but i 
> could not fix it. I have the same problems for other plots
>
> Thanks, Best,
>
> Pierre
>
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> 2014-01-15 16:35 GMT+01:00 Gilbert Ritschard 
> <Gilbert.Ritschard at unige.ch <mailto:Gilbert.Ritschard at unige.ch>>:
>
>     Hi Jeremy,
>
>     Thank you for your question. Could you provide a reproducible
>     working example? Indeed you are right, you should get the same
>     plot in both cases. You do not provide enough information,
>     however, to allow identifying the source of the problem.
>
>     Your question certainly is of interest for many TraMineR users and
>     future users.  I would therefore suggest you post your question on
>     StackOverflow (see
>     http://mephisto.unige.ch/traminer/contrib.shtml) using the
>     "traminer" tag which is searchable, unlike this r-forge list.
>
>     Best.
>
>     Gilbert
>
>     *From:*traminer-users-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
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>     [mailto:traminer-users-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
>     <mailto:traminer-users-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>] *On
>     Behalf Of *Jeremy Reynolds
>     *Sent:* Monday, January 13, 2014 22:09
>     *To:* traminer-users at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
>     <mailto:traminer-users at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>
>     *Subject:* [Traminer-users] plots with group option vs separate plots
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I have been making sequence plots, and I seem to be getting very
>     different results when I use the "group" option of the seqdplot or
>     seqIplot command than when I draw separate plots for each subgroup.
>
>     After creating a sequence object and performing optimal matching
>     using PAM, I have chosen a 4 cluster solution.  I then create a
>     single plot that shows the distribution across states in each of
>     the 4 clusters like this:
>
>
>     seqdplot(seq.hc, group = pam5vs$clustering$cluster4, border = NA,
>     title="pam5vs")
>
>     If I subset the data and make a separate plot for one of the 4
>     clusters as in the code below, the N matches the results above
>     (the total N and the N across the states), but I get a very
>     different impression of how the cases are distributed across the
>     states in the two graphs.  Am I doing something wrong?  I would be
>     happy to provide more detail if needed.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Jeremy
>
>
>     cluster4 <- subset(bhps, pam5vs$clustering$cluster4==(6875))
>     seq.cluster4 <- seqdef(cluster4 [4:21], labels = c("M", "S", "F",
>     "O", "U" ))
>
>     seqdplot(seq.cluster4, border = NA, title="pam5vs cluster 6875")
>
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