Thank you for the suggestion, baptiste. segments() does do exactly what I was
wanting and matplot()/matlines() is probably a better solution to what I was
trying to do.
However, I am still concerned about the discrepancy between the documentation
in ?par and the behavior of lines(). Should lines() be changed to cycle over a
vector of lty (so that it agrees with the documentation in ?par)? Should the
documentation of par be changed to use a different example of a function that
cycles over a vector of lty (segments() being a good candidate)? Or are both
lines() and ?par correct and there is a situation which lines() does cycle over
a vector of lty that I (and at least baptiste as well) do not understand? The
middle option is certainly the easiest, and I think the correct one, but I
wanted to rule out the last one before filing a bug report.
--
Brian Diggs, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery,
Oregon Health & Science University
baptiste auguie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you wish to connect each point to the next with a different linetype,
> I think your best bet is to use segments()
>
>
> x <- stats::runif(12); y <- stats::rnorm(12)
> i <- order(x,y); x <- x[i]; y <- y[i]
> plot(x, y)
> s <- seq(length(x)-1)
> segments(x[s], y[s], x[s+1], y[s+1], lty=1:10)
>
>
> If, however, you wish to plot several groups of lines with different
> linetypes, then matlines() should do the job. Both of these make actual
> use of lty as a vector, while polygon(), abline(), plot(), lines() will
> only use the first value (as far as i can see).
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> baptiste
>
> On 20 Nov 2008, at 20:24, Brian Diggs wrote:
>
>> I am confused by the behavior of the lines function when the lty
>> argument is a vector. ?lines indicates that lty is a valid parameter,
>> but says nothing else about it. ?plot.xy (which I think is what gets
>> called) refers back to ?lines. ?plot.default says to see ?par. In
>> ?par, about lty it says "Some functions such as lines accept a vector
>> of values which are recycled. Other uses will take just the first
>> value if a vector of length greater than one is supplied." However, I
>> cannot get lines to use more than one type of line. Some example code:
>>
>> pt <- runif(10)
>> plot(pt)
>> lines(pt, type="c", lty=1:10)
>>
>> I expected each subsequent line segment to be in a different style.
>> Only the first seems to be used. The same is true for plot:
>>
>> plot(pt, type="b", lty=1:10)
>>
>> uses only one style of line segment (although no documentation says
>> explicitly that the others would be used). It doesn't matter the
>> order or manner of specification, only the first is used.
>>
>> plot(pt)
>> lines(pt, type="c", lty=c("dashed","solid"))
>>
>> plot(pt)
>> lines(pt, type="c", lty=c("FF", "11"))
>>
>> I have used a vector of lty before (in legend) and it cycled through
>> all the values. Am I misunderstanding what a vector lty to lines
>> means, or is this a bug?
>>
>> I'm running on Windows XP Pro, if that might matter.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> --
>> Brian Diggs, Ph.D.
>> Senior Research Associate, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health &
>> Science University
>>
>>
>>
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