[R] Multiple colors in plots/lookup function

[John Fox]

Dear David,

At 12:04 AM 10/17/2002 -0400, David Forrest wrote:

>   I'd like to do something like:
>
>  n<-100
>  zz<-cbind(rnorm(n),rnorm(n),floor(runif(n)*3+1))
>  colors<-c("red","green","blue")
>
>  plot(zz,col=colors(zz[3]))
>
>and have a matrix of scatterplots colored by class.  The above does not
>work, of course, but I'm not sure exactly what function I'm looking for.

A couple of people have already mentioned that specifying 
col=colors[zz[,3]] will colour the points in a scatterplot (not a 
scatterplot matrix) by the values of zz[,3]. Since there are just two other 
columns (the third column of zz is ignored in the first argument to plot), 
you get a scatterplot, not a scatterplot matrix, and it's hard to see how a 
scatterplot matrix would be relevant.

If, however, you want a scatterplot matrix of pairwise plots for three or 
more variables coloured by the levels of a factor, the scatterplot.matrix 
function in the car package should do what you want.

Regards,
John


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