Or perhaps this as an example of using lines() rather than just getting a line and dot output in the upper graph. x <- 1:10 y <- (1:100)*3 z <- rnorm(100, 150, sd= 75) a <- rnorm(10,mean=5, sd= 2.5) par(mfcol=c(2,1)) plot(x) lines(a, col= "red") plot(y) lines(z , col="blue")
--- On Tue, 4/12/11, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > From: John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> > Subject: Re: [R] multiple lines on multiple plots > To: r-help@r-project.org, "James Annan" <jdan...@jamstec.go.jp> > Received: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 11:54 AM > Try this. > > ======================= > x<- 1:10 > y<- (1:100)*3 > par(mfcol=c(2,1)) > plot(x, type="o") > plot(y) > ======================= > > > > --- On Tue, 4/12/11, James Annan <jdan...@jamstec.go.jp> > wrote: > > > From: James Annan <jdan...@jamstec.go.jp> > > Subject: [R] multiple lines on multiple plots > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Received: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 9:30 AM > > I'm sure this must be trivial, but > > I'm a novice with R and can't work out how to handle > the > > axes when I am constructing multiple plots on a page > and try > > to return to a previous one to put multiple data sets > it. > > > > A simple example: > > --- > > x<- 1:10 > > y<- (1:100)*3 > > par(mfcol=c(2,1)) > > plot(x) > > plot(y) > > > > par(mfg=c(1,1)) > > lines(x) > > --- > > > > The first 5 lines make two plots with a row of dots > along > > the diagonal of each. I intended the last two > statements to > > add a line to the first plot, that runs along the same > data > > points already plotted there. However, although the > commands > > add a line to the top plot, it is clearly using the > axis > > dimensions of the lower plot. Can someone tell me how > to get > > it to use the axes that are already there? > > > > Variants like lines(x,xlim=c(1,10)) have no effect. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > James > > -- James D Annan jdan...@jamstec.go.jp > > Tel: +81-45-778-5618 (Fax 5707) > > Senior Scientist, Research Institute for Global > Change, > > JAMSTEC > > (The Institute formerly known as Frontier) > > Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, 3173-25 > Showamachi, > > Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, 236-0001 Japan > > http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/research/d5/jdannan/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.