Hi David.

Using the two points to compute slopes and intercepts for the lines and
then plotting is exactly what I want to do.


Thanks!


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:16 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote:

> matplot works just fine, but you only have two data points, at -4800 and at
> -2800. You chop the x axis at -4500 so that the first point is outside the
> graph window and extend it to -100 which is far beyond your point at -2800.
> If you want to project the lines, you will have to add points.
>
> > x <- read.table(text="V1       V2       V3      V41
> +  -4800 25195.73 7415.219 7264.282
> + -2800 15195.73 5415.219 7264.28",
> +  header=TRUE)
> > x
>      V1       V2       V3      V41
> 1 -4800 25195.73 7415.219 7264.282
> 2 -2800 15195.73 5415.219 7264.280
>
> Did you want to use the two points to compute a slopes and intercepts for
> lines and then plot those lines?
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> David L Carlson
> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Alspach
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:41 PM
> > To: Ignacio Martinez; r-help
> > Subject: Re: [R] Plot 3 lines in one graph
> >
> > Tena koe Ignacio
> >
> > I cannot follow you example (you might care to read the posting guide,
> > link at end, to help you in this regard).  However, the usual way to
> > plot three lines in one graph is to use lines.  For example,
> >
> > yourData <- data.frame(x=1:2, y1=runif(2), y2=runif(2), y3=runif(2))
> > with(yourData, plot(x, y1, ylim=range(unlist(yourData[,-1])),
> > type='l'))
> > with(yourData, lines(x, y2, col='red3'))
> > with(yourData, lines(x, y3, col='blue2', lty='dashed'))
> >
> > I hope this is of some help ...
> >
> > Peter Alspach
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Ignacio Martinez
> > Sent: Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:10 p.m.
> > To: r-help
> > Subject: [R] Plot 3 lines in one graph
> >
> > I'm new with R. I want to plot 3 lines in one graph. This is my data:
> >
> > print(x)
> >      V1       V2       V3      V41 -4800 25195.73 7415.219 7264.282
> > -2800 15195.73 5415.219 7264.28
> >
> > I tried using matplot, but I cannot get exactly what I want. This is
> > what I get, and this is my code:
> >
> > matplot(x[,1],x[,-1],type='b', xlab = "epsilon_h",
> >         ylab = "Value2", xlim= range(-4500,-100),
> >         col = c("blue","green","red"), pch=1:3)
> > ex12 <- expression(V(h == 40),
> >                    V(h==20),
> >                    V(h==0))
> > legend("topright", ex12, col = c("blue","green","red"), pch=1:3)
> >
> > I would like to make the lines extend so I can see the intersections.
> >
> >
> > The other, fancier and better looking, option that i found is ggplot2.
> > But for what I understand from the
> > example<http://wiki.stdout.org/rcookbook/Graphs/Scatterplots%20(ggplot2
> > )/>I
> > would need to reshape my data to something like this
> >
> >      id       x       y      1     1     -4800   25195.73
> > 2     1     -2800   15195.733     2     -4800   7415.2194     2
> > -2800   5415.2195     3     -4800   7264.286     3     -2800   7264.28
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the help!
> >
> > -Ignacio
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