On Jun 20, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Bea GD wrote:

> I've tried several things but I don't manage to get this plot right. Any help 
> greatly appreciated!
> I'm running a for loop to produce 4 plots at once. Each plot should only show 
> data points for a specific group (i.e. 4 plots for groups 1 to 4). The 
> coordinates of the points should be petal length and width. The colour of 
> these points should codify the species variable. Finally I'd like to show a 
> legend for the colours on these plots. It's important that each species has a 
> unique colour. Thanks you a lot for your input!
> 
>    # Data
>    dd <- iris
> 
>    dd$group <- ifelse(dd$Sepal.Length>=4.3 & dd$Sepal.Length<5.2, 1,
>                         ifelse(dd$Sepal.Length>=5.2 & dd$Sepal.Length<6.1, 2,
>                                ifelse(dd$Sepal.Length>=6.1 & 
> dd$Sepal.Length<7, 3,
>                                       ifelse(dd$Sepal.Length>=7, 4, NA))))
>    dd$group <- as.integer(dd$group)
> 
>    dd$Species <- c(rep("Wild", 12), rep("Pinky", 12), rep("Orangy", 12), 
> rep("Smelly", 12),
>                    rep("Pretty", 12), rep("Blue", 12), rep("Big", 12), 
> rep("Rare", 12),
>                    rep("Toxic", 12), rep("Danger", 12), rep("Abundant", 18), 
> rep("Last", 12))
> 
> 
>    # Code to plot 4 graphs. It doesn't work!
>    pdf("plot_test.pdf", width=10, height=10)
>    par(mfrow=c(2, 2))
>    for(b in unique(dd$group)){
>      idx <- dd$group==b
>      plot(dd$Petal.Length, dd$Petal.Width, ty="n", 
> xlim=range(dd$Petal.Length), ylim=range(dd$Petal.Width))
>      cols <- as.numeric(unique(dd$Species))
>      points(dd$Petal.Length[idx], dd$Petal.Width[idx],
>             col=cols[as.numeric(dd$Species[idx])])
>      legend("right", legend=unique(dd$Species[idx]), pch=1, 
> col=cols[as.numeric(unique(dd$Species[idx]))])
>    }
>    dev.off()

This appears to be a duplicate of 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24333076/for-loop-to-produce-plots-with-legend
 and is already answered. You are requesten not to corss-post to SO and Rhelp.

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