If it's specifically drawing the grid that's the trouble, I think the
simplest approach is to use the grid() function in the base graphics
package.
Kyle H. Ambert
Fellow, National Library of Medicine
Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology
Oregon Health & Science University
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Daniel Malter <dan...@umd.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi, nothing customized is effortless. It typically requires a bit of coding
> unless you are lucky and somebody has implemented it in some package (you
> just have to find the package). But it's not that difficult to do it
> yourself. It just requires figuring out where the lines should be placed,
> which is easy given that you know where your box is placed. So you just
> need
> to take the terciles of your ylims and xlims and place the lines there.
> Below is one approach (probably not the most elegant).
>
> xl=c(-1.5,1.5)
> yl=c(0,5)
> rect.x=c(1,1,-1,-1,1)
> rect.y=c(1.5,3.5,3.5,1.5,1.5)
>
> plot(NULL,xlim=xl, ylim=yl)
> lines(rect.x,rect.y, col=c("red"))
>
> denominator=3
> nominator=seq(from=1, to=denominator-1, by=1)
>
> seq.rect.x=(max(rect.x)-min(rect.x))*(nominator/denominator)
> seq.rect.y=(max(rect.y)-min(rect.y))*(nominator/denominator)
>
> x.coord=min(rect.x)+seq.rect.x
> y.coord=min(rect.y)+seq.rect.y
>
> lines(rep(x.coord[1],2),rep(c(min(rect.y),max(rect.y))),col="blue")
> lines(rep(x.coord[2],2),rep(c(min(rect.y),max(rect.y))),col="blue")
> lines(rep(c(min(rect.x),max(rect.x))),rep(y.coord[1],2),col="blue")
> lines(rep(c(min(rect.x),max(rect.x))),rep(y.coord[2],2),col="blue")
>
> HTH,
> Daniel
>
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