Hello, Thanks again. But something wrong with the subset after lm
> > It is not about drawing plot many times but coding points or graphic objects > by some factor. In your case sex. > > Instead of > boyline<-lm(body_weight ~ body_length, boy) > > use collective data frame together and subset only one sex. > boy<-read.csv("H:/boy_data.csv",header=T) girl<-read.csv("H:/girl_data.csv",header=T) together <- rbind(boy, girl) together$sex <- factor(rep(c("boy", "girl"), c(8,7))) plot(together$body_length, together$body_weight, ...., col=c("firebrick3","saddlebrown")[as.numeric(together$sex)], ....) boyline<-lm(body_weight ~ body_length, data=together, subset(sex=="boy")) > abline(boyline,col="firebrick3",lwd=2) > I updated it aas >boyline<-lm(body_weight ~ body_length, data=together, >subset(together,sex=="boy")) But an error showed, saying: error in xj[i] : useless type of 'list' Please kindly help and thanks again. BTW, the code below might need update as well. Elaine > In case of more than two sexes (some SF authors mentioned it is possible) you > can use simple loop. > > for (i in 1:2)) { > subs <- together$sex==levels(together$sex)[i] > line<-lm(body_weight ~ body_length, data=together, subset=subs) > abline(line, col=c("firebrick3","saddlebrown")[i],lwd=2) > } The original code with advice by Petr #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ boy<-read.csv("H:/boy_data.csv",header=T) girl<-read.csv("H:/girl_data.csv",header=T) together <- rbind(boy, girl) together$sex <- factor(rep(c("boy", "girl"), c(8,7))) plot(together$body_length, together$body_weight, ...., col=c("firebrick3","saddlebrown")[as.numeric(together$sex)], ....) boyline<-lm(body_weight ~ body_length, data=together, subset(sex=="boy")) abline(boyline,col="firebrick3",lwd=2) ______________________________________________ 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.