On 04/19/2011 06:05 PM, Timo Schneider wrote:
Dear R Gurus,
I would like to make a line-plot of a large data-set (>200 data-points)
for a document which will be printed in black and white. The plot will
contain 5 different lines. So i need a way to differentiate between the
lines. Since color is not an option i tried different line styles with
all sorts of "line-gap" or "dot dot dot" patterns. Since my plots are
rather small it is hard to get lines that look contiguous enough while
still being identifiable through their line style.
What I would like to have are lines that have symbols on top of them,
similar to what i get with plot(x,y,type='o'). The problem is that i
have to many data-points for that method, the symbols will just "melt
together", as in plot(seq(1,500), seq(1,500), type='o') - just one big
line.
What i want is to have a configurable number of symbols spread
equidistantly over the whole graph, regardless of the number or position
of data-points.
Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this?
Hi Timo,
I don't have time to program this at the moment, but the method isn't
too hard, assuming that your line is defined by a series of x and y
coordinates.
Define a function, e.g. equiPoints
Pass the x and y coordinate vectors and the distance between symbols
Start at the leftmost end of the line, recording the x/y coordinates
Calculate the length of successive segments until the cumulative length
is >= the desired distance
Interpolate the x and y coordinates of the last segment to get the next
position for a symbol
Add these x and y coordinates to the x and y coordinate vectors
Repeat until you reach the end of the line
Use the symbols function to plot the symbols at the coordinates you have
calculated
Jim
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