[R] A question on plotting

[Jonathan Baron]

>From: "Indrajit SenGupta" <indra_calisto at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [R] A question on plotting
>My Mail StationeryI have a question on plotting. Suppose I have two vectors
>x and y consisting of equal number of elements. Say x be the observed values
>of a time series and y be the fitted values. I would like to plot the two
>sets of data on the same graph. How would I go about doing this? If they are
>plotted on different graphs but in the same window like one would get if one
>used the command scatter.smooth with times series data, that would do too.

To do the two in the same graph:

plot(x)
lines(y)
or
points(y)

or

matplot(cbind(x,y),type="l")

To do separate graphs one above the other:

par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(x)
plot(y)

In general, see
?plot
?matplot
?lines
?par

You can do other things like set colors, ranges, axis labels, etc.

Jon Baron
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