[R] Basic plot density question

[Greg Snow]

First you should do your best to forget that you ever saw the command
"par(new=T)", rip that page out of any book you saw it in, blacklist
any webpage etc.  In general (as you see) it causes more problems than
it solves.

Now to do what you want there are a couple of options, one of the
simplest is to use the lines function:

d1 <- density(x1)
d2 <- density(x2)
plot(d1, xlab='', col='red',main='', ylim=range(d1$y,d2$y),
xlim=range(d1$x,d2$x) )
lines(d2, col='blue')

Other options include the matplot function or tools in the lattice and
ggplot2 packages.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Brian Smith <bsmith030465 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to plot two different density profiles. My code looks like:
>
>
> x1 <- rnorm(100,mean=0,sd=1)
> x2 <- rnorm(100,mean=1,sd=1)
>
> plot(density(x1),xlab="",col="red",main="")
> par(new=T)
> plot(density(x2),xlab="",col="blue",main="")
>
>
> However, the x-axis values don't match up for the two plots. Is there a way
> I can fix the axis so that the two plots are comparable? Similarly for the
> y-axis...
>
> thanks!
>
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