[R] plotting and overlay

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:54:34 -0800, Spencer Graves
> <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
> 
> >Start the plot using "plot", add lines and points using "lines" and 
> >"points", as described in the examples with "?plot". 
> 
> That's how you do plots that you construct yourself; you can get a lot
> of the higher level functions (e.g. hist) to do this using the
> argument "add=TRUE".

And if you really want to overlay plots, there is par(new=TRUE).  (This 
will replot the axes etc, so the second plot may perhaps need axes=FALSE 
or xaxt="n", yaxt="n" in its call.)

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