[R] Plotting a graph of many lines between groups of points...

[Hotz, T.]

Dear Andrew,

Assuming your variables are called V1 to V4, and are vectors, 
I'd use something like

plot(V1,V2,xlim=range(V1,V3),ylim=range(V2,V4),type="n")
segments(V1,V2,V3,V4)

HTH

Thomas

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:johnson.2060 at osu.edu]
> Sent: 15 July 2003 20:42
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Plotting a graph of many lines between groups of 
> points...
> 
> 
> I have a data file read into a data frame.
> 
> For example,
> 
> 	V1	V2	V3	V4
> 1	1	1	3	4
> 2	2	3	5	10
> .	.	.	.	.
> .	.	.	.	.
> n          V1[n]     V2[n]     V3[n]     V4[n]
> 
> to n=many thousand
> 
> I want to plot a graph with many line segments, where 
> v1[i]=x1, v2[i]=y1, 
> v3[i]=x2, v4[i]=y2 for i=1,n.
> 
> This seems relatively simple in theory but I've spent quite a 
> bit of time 
> trying to make it happen with plot(type=), points(x,y), or 
> lines(x,y) to no 
> avail.
> 
> Do I need to turn these into vectors before plotting them?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
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