See example(layout)
for one idea. I think you might also want to look into rug plots. Best, Michael On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, li li <hannah....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > For two sets of random variables, say, x <- rnorm(1000, 10, 10) and y > <- rnorm(1000. 3, 20). > Is there any way to overlay the histograms (and density curves) of x and y > on the plot of y vs. x? > The histogram of x is on the x axis and that of y is on the y axis. > The density curve here is to approximate the shape of the distribution > and does not have to have area 1. > Thank you in advance. > Hannah > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.