If it is important to have points rather than just create the grid, then you could do something using the my.symbols function in the TeachingDemos package. One of the examples on the help page fills the plot with hexagons, the calculations for squares should be simpler.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of thernubblet > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:41 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] How to generate scatterplot - with a twist > > > Hi. I would like to make a scatterplot where all of the points are > evenly > spaced from each other - however, they are all the same size and occupy > the > entire graph. For example: > > x = rep(c(1:10), 10) > y = rep(c(10:1), each = 10) > plot(x, y, pch = 0) > > Gives me a scatter plot with 100 square points each evenly spaced > between > each other. But these points don't fill up the entire space and if I > try to > change the 'cex' value, the points on the edges get messed up. I was > wondering if there was a way to fill up the entire space (all of the > edges > of the little squares are touching each other) and each individual > square is > the same size. Any help will be greatly appreciated! > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-to- > generate-scatterplot-with-a-twist-tp2923805p2923805.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
