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plot.xy {base}R Documentation

Basic Internal Plot Function

Description

This is the internal function that does the basic plotting of points and lines. Usually, one should rather use the higher level functions instead and refer to their help pages for explanation of the arguments.

Usage

plot.xy(xy, type, pch=1, lty="solid", col=par("fg"), bg=NA, cex=1, ...)

Arguments

xy

A four-element list as results from xy.coords(..).

type

1 character code.

pch

character or integer code for kind of points/lines.

lty

line type code, see lines.

col

color code or name, see colors, palette.

bg

background (“fill”) color for open plot symbols.

cex

character expansion

...

further graphical parameters

See Also

plot, plot.default, points, lines.

Examples

points.default # just calling "plot.xy(xy.coords(x, y), type = "p", ......)"

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