On 14 April 2011 07:51, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > Am I missing something obvious on how to draw multi-line plots in base > graphics? > > In ggplot2, I can do:
It appears you've been infected with what I like to call "the Dijkstra syndrome" [*], quoting "The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities." You can probably blame ggplot2 here, messing with our minds and spoiling us. I can't seem able to think like spreadsheets anymore either, because of R. Thanks though, baptiste [*] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html > > data(Oxboys, package = "nlme") > library(ggplot2) > > qplot(age, height, data = Oxboys, geom = "line", group = Subject) > > But in base graphics, the best I can come up with is this: > > with(Oxboys, plot(age, height, type = "n")) > lapply(split(Oxboys[c("age", "height")], Oxboys$Subject), lines) > > Am I missing something obvious? > > Thanks! > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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.