On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:52 PM, lauren mcdonagh <cleverlolli...@yahoo.ie> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I hope you can help me as you have done before. > > I was wondering if I can make some of the points on my graph a different > colour and symbol? Some of my soil samples are enriched and I wanted them to > be shown with a red triangle and the samples which are not enriched I wanted > to show with a blue square. I can't seem to find a way of doing this if there > is a way?
You can use a vector for par and col, instead of a single value: plot (y~x, xaxt = "n", type = "p", xlab = "Distance (m)", ylab = "Concentrations (mg/kg)", cex.axis = .8, xlim = c(0,3000), ylim = c(0,800), col=c(rep(2, 2), rep(4, 2), rep(2, 7)), pch = c(rep(17, 2), rep(15, 2), rep(17, 7)), bg = 2, sub = "Zinc", font.sub = 2) If there's some criterion within your data that describes enriched and unenriched, you can use that to create the vector, instead of doing it manually as I did. isEnriched <- c(1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1) col=c("red", "blue")[isEnriched] and pch=c(2, 4)[isEnriched] Alternatively, you can subset the data and use points() to add different sets with different parameters. Thanks for providing a reproducible example. Sarah > > My script: > > x > <- c(0, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000) > y > <- c(450, 109, 27,21,206,138,97,185,77,670,80) > plot (y~x, > xaxt = "n", type = "p", xlab = "Distance (m)", > ylab = "Concentrations (mg/kg)", cex.axis = .8, xlim = c(0,3000), > ylim = c(0,800), col =2, pch = 17, bg = 2, sub = "Zinc", > font.sub = 2) > abline(h=c(63), > lty = 2, col = "green", lwd =1) > abline(h=c(140), > lty = 3, col = "blue", lwd = 1) > abline(h=c(720), > lty = 1, col ="red", lwd = 2) > legend(1300, > 700, c("Control", "Dutch List - Optimum", "Dutch List > - Action"), col = c(3,4,2), lty = c(2,3,1), cex = 0.8, lwd = c(1,1,2), > inset = 1) > axis(1, > at = x, cex.axis=.7, las=2) > text(0,450, > "mine average", pos = 4, col = "black", cex= 0.8) > > If possible I would like coordinates (100, 27) and (250, 21) to > be shown as blue squares (col = 4, bg = 4, pch = 15). > > Hope you can help! > Lauren > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.