| xy.coords {base} | R Documentation |
Extracting Plotting Structures
Description
xy.coords is used by many function to obtain
x and y coordinates for plotting.
The use of this common mechanism across all R functions
produces a measure of consistency.
plot.default and lowess are examples of functions
which use this mechanism.
Usage
xy.coords(x, y, xlab=NULL, ylab=NULL)
Arguments
x, y |
the x and y coordinates of a set of points.
Alternatively, a single argument x can be be provided.
In this case, an attempt is made to interpret the
argument in a way suitable for plotting.
If the argument is a formula yvar ~ xvar, xvar and yvar
are used as x and y variables;
if the argument is a list containing components x and
y, these are used are assumed to define plotting coordinates;
if the argument contains a time series, the x values are
taken to be time and the y values to be the time series;
if the argument is a matrix with two columns, the first
is assumed to contain the x values and the second the
y values; in any other case, the argument is coerced to a vector
and the values plotted against their indices.
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xlab, ylab |
names for the x and y variables to be extracted.
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Value
A list with the components
x |
numeric vector of abscissa values.
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y |
numeric vector of the same length as x.
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xlab |
character(1) or NULL, the ‘label’ of x.
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ylab |
character(1) or NULL, the ‘label’ of y.
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Examples
xy.coords(fft(c(1:10)), NULL)
data(cars) ; attach(cars)
xy.coords(dist ~ speed, NULL)$xlab # = "speed"