On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Letticia Ramlal wrote:
> I am trying to plot a graph but the points on the graph should be
> different symbols and colors. It should represent what is in the legend.
> I tried using the points command but this does not work.
WHAT "does not work" ???
points() puts points on a plot with colors and symbols as you specify
them.
example(points)
illustrates this with several different setups.
It even shows how to construct "red symbols with a yellow interior (where
available)"!!
Read the help page, run and study the example()'s
Is there
> another command in R that would allow me to use different symbols and
> colors for the points?
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> Thank you kindly.
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> data(mtcars)
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> plot(mtcars$wt,mtcars$mpg,xlab= "Weight(lbs/1000)", ylab="Miles per
> Gallon")
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> mtcars$wt.cyl<-mtcars$wt[mtcars$cyl]
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> mtcars$mpg.cyl<-mtcars$mpg[mtcars$cyl]
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> points(mtcars$wt.cyl, mtcars$mpg.cyl, pch = 17, col = "red")
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> title("Motor Trend Data")
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> text(2,10,"LTR",cex=1.2,adj=0,col=3)
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> legend(4,30,c("4 cylinder","6 cylinder","8 cylinder"),pch=c(3,17,19),
> cex=1.2, col=c("blue", "red", "purple4"))
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