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Add a Straight Line to a Plot

Syntax

abline(a, b, ...)
abline(h=, ...)
abline(v=, ...)
abline(coef, ...)
abline(reg, ...)

Description

abline can be used to add one or more straight lines to a plot. The first form above specifies the line in intercept/slope form (alternatively a can be specified on its own and is taken to contain the slope and intercept in vector form). The h= and v= forms draw horizontal and vertical lines at the specified coordinates. The coef form specifies the line by a vector containing the slope and intercept. reg is a regression object which contains reg$coef. If it is of length 1 then the value is taken to be the slope of a line through the origin, otherwise, the first 2 values are taken to be the slope and intercept.

Graphical parameters can be specified as arguments to abline, see par for details.