[R] plot question

Catherine Carter clcarter at umd.edu
Fri Aug 25 15:25:24 CEST 2006


Thank you! That is exactly what I needed.

Roger D. Peng wrote:

> Take a look at ?plot.stepfun.
>
> 'ecdf()' returns an object of class "ecdf" inheriting from class 
> "stepfun" and 'plot.ecdf()' calls 'plot.stepfun'.
>
> -roger
>
> Catherine Carter wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have what may appear to be a newbie question, but I have looked 
>> everywhere I can think to look and I cannot find an answer. On page 
>> 35 of "An Introduction to R" the following command appears: 
>> plot(ecdf(eruptions), do.points=FALSE, verticals=TRUE). What is the 
>> do.points argument? I know what it does (suppresses printing of the 
>> points) but where can I find help on it? I want to be able to explain 
>> it fully to my students.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Cathy
>>
>

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