On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Katherine Gobin wrote:

> Respected R forum
> 
> I am learning R and relatively quite new to R. I am generating a scatter-plot 
> as given below. (My actual table is much larger).
> 
> 
> 
> # Sample data frame
> 
> 
> y = c(20, 23, 17, 31, 68)
> x = c(200, 300, 400, 500, 600)
> 
> plot(x, y, type = 'l')
> 
> If I plot this scatter-plot in excel, the data values are displayed if I 
> place the cursor at some desired place of the graph. E.g. if I place the 
> cursor say at the point (400, 31), then the value (400, 31) is displayed.
> 
> My question(s) are

.... easily answered by looking at the help pages.

> (A) once I plot a graph in R, is it possible to display a particular (x, y) 
> co-ordinate by placing the cursor there?

?locator

> 
> (B) Suppose I have 100 pairs of (x, y ). then is it possible to display  in 
> the graph (irrespective of the curosr position) the values of (x,  y) 
> corresponding to say 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th etc. observations in the graph.

?text
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

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