[R] New to R - Errors in plotting

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 17:26:57 CET 2008


You need to provide more information. PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Show at least an 'str' of your data if you can not include it and the
commands that you were using.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:18 AM, BKMooney <bkmooney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am new to R and am running into trouble with the function plot.
>
> When I enter in the simple code:
> x<-1:4
> y<-5:8
> plot(x,y)
>
> I get a scatter plot with 4 points as expected.
>
> However, with my own data, A and B are both vectors of length ~85, each
> entry a decimal in [0,1].
>
> Using the same plot(A,B) with this data, the plot function no longer gives
> me a simple plot with 85 points.  Instead there are many points, and what
> looks to be several box&whisker plots also included on the plot.
>
> This is a link to the actual output.
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p20364310/plotAB.bmp plotAB.bmp
>
> Why is the plot function doing this?  How can I get it to simply give me a
> scatterplot?  (From there I want to do a lsline, etc..)
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks!
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