On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:15:34PM -0500, Ben Fairbank wrote:
>
> I would like to use plot() to plot two cumulative distribution curves so
> that a user of the plot can compare the distributions of the two
> variables. The following code draws two distributions separately, but I
> cannot find the instruction necessary to add a second cumulative
> distribution to the first one.
> x1 <- sort(rnorm(1000,50,10))
> x2 <- sort(rnorm(1000,40,8))
>
> plot(x1,1:length(x1)/length(x1),type="l")
> plot(x2,1:length(x2)/length(x2),type="l")
To add a line to an existing plot use lines() instead of plot():
lines(x2,1:length(x2)/length(x2))
In case you want to add points use points().
cu
Philipp
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Technische Universität München
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and
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