| plot {graphics} | R Documentation |
Generic function for plotting of R objects. For more details about
the graphical parameter arguments, see par.
plot(x, y, ...)
x |
the coordinates of points in the plot. Alternatively, a
single plotting structure, function or any R object with a
plot method can be provided. |
y |
the y coordinates of points in the plot, optional
if x is an appropriate structure. |
... |
Arguments to be passed to methods, such as graphical
parameters (see par).
Many methods will accept the following arguments:
type
types give a warning or an error; using, e.g.,
type = "punkte" being equivalent to type = "p" for S
compatibility.
maintitle.subtitle.xlabtitle.ylabtitle.aspplot.window. |
For simple scatter plots, plot.default will be used.
However, there are plot methods for many R objects,
including functions, data.frames,
density objects, etc. Use methods(plot) and
the documentation for these.
The two step types differ in their x-y preference: Going from
(x1,y1) to (x2,y2) with x1 < x2, type = "s"
moves first horizontal, then vertical, whereas type = "S" moves
the other way around.
plot.default, plot.formula and other
methods; points, lines, par.
plot(cars)
lines(lowess(cars))
plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
## Discrete Distribution Plot:
plot(table(rpois(100,5)), type = "h", col = "red", lwd=10,
main="rpois(100,lambda=5)")
## Simple quantiles/ECDF, see ecdf() {library(stats)} for a better one:
plot(x <- sort(rnorm(47)), type = "s", main = "plot(x, type = \"s\")")
points(x, cex = .5, col = "dark red")