Hi Joseph, How about this?
matplot(cbind(m0, m1, m3, m4), type = 'l', lty = 1) legend('topright', paste('m', c(0, 1, 3, 4), sep = ""), lty = 1, col = 1:4) See ?matplot and ?legend for details. HTH, Jorge On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM, <> wrote: > R-listers: > > I have searched the help files and everything I have related to R graphics. > I cannot find how to graph y against > several distributions on a single graph. Here is code for creating 4 > Poisson distributions with different mean values, although I would prefer > having it in a loop: The top of the y axis for the first distribution, with > count of 0, is .6, which is the highest point for any of the distributions. > > obs <- 1:20 y <- obs-1 > m0 <- (exp(-.5) * .5^y)/factorial(y) > m1 <- (exp(-1) * 1^y)/factorial(y) > m3 <- (exp(-3) * 3^y)/factorial(y) > m4 <- (exp(-5) * 5^y)/factorial(y) > > How do I plot the graph of each distribution on y, all on a single graph? I > have spent so many hours on this, > which is really quite simple in applications such as Stata. Thanks very > much for the assistance: > > Joseph Hilbe > hi...@asu.edu or jhi...@aol.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.