I been trying to find some resources similar to this but my current dataset looks like this:

and from the examples I see for facet graphs, an ideal format seems to be like this:

...and so on...

I have been trying with R's rearrangement functions, tried something with facet wraps, and have tried using loops and if statements. However, I still have been unable to figure this out so my questions are:

1. This new format would make facet graphs easier, correct? (date, length, and count of overlapping histograms.) I struggled to do such a graph with the older data but perhaps I'm being going about it wrong.

2. If this new dataset is better, what would be a good method?

Thank you in advance.

CodePudding user response：

I guess you're referring to the concept of Tidy Data (see:

Data:

library(readr)

df <-
read_table("lwg_date    bon_date    lwg_length  bon_length
May April   1   31
May April   10  14
May April   12  12
March   May 19  11
April   May 5   17")