plot.default {base} | R Documentation |
Draw a scatter plot with ``decorations'' such as axes and titles in the active graphics window.
plot.default(x, y = NULL, type = "p", xlim = NULL, ylim = NULL, log = "", main = NULL, sub = NULL, xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL, ann = par("ann"), axes = TRUE, frame.plot = axes, panel.first = NULL, panel.last = NULL, col = par("fg"), bg = NA, pch = par("pch"), cex = par("cex"), lty = par("lty"), lwd = par("lwd"), asp = NA, ...)
x,y |
the x and y arguments provide the x and y
coordinates for the plot. Any reasonable way of defining the
coordinates is acceptable. See the function xy.coords
for details. |
type |
the type of plot desired. The following possibilities are
possible; "p" for points, "l" for lines, "o"
for overplotted points and lines, "b" or c for points
joined by lines, "s" and "S" for step functions and
"h" for high density vertical lines. |
xlim |
the x limits (min,max) of the plot. |
ylim |
the y limits of the plot. |
log |
a character string which contains "x" if the x axis
is to be logarithmic, "y" if the y axis is to be logarithmic
and "xy" or "yx" if both axes are to be logarithmic. |
main |
a main title for the plot. |
sub |
a sub title for the plot. |
xlab |
a label for the x axis. |
ylab |
a label for the y axis. |
ann |
a logical value indicating whether the default annotation (title and x and y axis labels) should appear on the plot. |
axes |
a logical value indicating whether axes should be drawn on the plot. |
frame.plot |
a logical indicating whether a box should be drawn around the plot. |
panel.first |
an expression to be evaluated after the plot axes are set up but before any plotting takes place. This can be useful for drawing background grids or scatterplot smooths. |
panel.last |
an expression to be evaluated after plotting has taken place. |
col |
The colors for lines and points. Multiple colors can be specified so that each point can be given its own color. If there are fewer colors than points they are recycled in the standard fashion. |
bg |
background color of ??? |
pch |
a vector of plotting characters or symbols. |
cex |
a numerical value giving the amount by which plotting text and symbols should be scaled relative to the default |
lty |
the line type, see par . |
lwd |
the line width not yet supported for postscript. |
asp |
the y/x aspect ratio, see plot.window . |
... |
graphical parameters as in par(...) may
also be passed as arguments. |
Cleveland, W. S. (1985) The Elements of Graphing Data. Monterey, CA: Wadsworth.
data(cars) Speed <- cars$speed Distance <- cars$dist plot(Speed, Distance, panel.first = grid(8,8), pch = 0, cex = 1.2, col = "blue") plot(Speed, Distance, panel.first = lines(lowess(Speed, Distance), lty = "dashed"), pch = 0, cex = 1.2, col = "blue") ##--- Log-Log Plot with custom axes lx <- seq(1,5, length=41) yl <- expression(e^{-frac(1,2) * {log[10](x)}^2}) y <- exp(-.5*lx^2) op <- par(mfrow=c(2,1), mar=par("mar")+c(0,1,0,0)) plot(10^lx, y, log="xy", type="l", col="purple", main="Log-Log plot", ylab=yl, xlab="x") plot(10^lx, y, log="xy", type="o", pch='.', col="forestgreen", main="Log-Log plot with custom axes", ylab=yl, xlab="x", axes = FALSE, frame.plot = TRUE) axis(1, at = my.at <- 10^(1:5), labels = formatC(my.at, format="fg")) at.y <- 10^(-5:-1) axis(2, at = at.y, labels = formatC(at.y, format="fg"), col.axis="red") par(op)