Modifying basic plots in R
May 04, 2010
Tags: axis label, graphics, greek symbol, plotting, R, R-project, subscript, superscript
Below is a walk-through of some of the basics of customizing plots in R. These are all based on the graphics package that comes in the base installation of R.
Let’s start by making a basic plot in R. In the code snippets below, green text behind a # sign is considered comments by R, so everything after a # sign on a line will be ignored by R. We’ll call the plot command and supply it with two vectors of numbers representing the x and y values:
plot(c(1,2,3,4,5,6),c(4,3,6,2,1,1)) #x and y data for our example plot
which produces this plot:
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