nonu...@yahoo.de wrote:
Dear all

I'm realy new to R, so I hope you can help me, as I didn't find any solution in 
the common books.

Since some days I'm trying to create the following plot: A scatterplott showning two different groups 
side-by-side with according regression lines. Both datasets only have the same five factors, so the scatters 
will form a kind of column at each factor. When I use "scatterplot" (package "car"), then 
I can plot two groups in the same graph by using the command "groups", but the scatters of both 
groups are then plotted on top of eachother using different symbols and they can hardly be distingushed. How 
can I plot them side by side, so that the groups do not overlap? And how can I give different colours to the 
groups and the according regression line?(This is, what I got so far: 
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/227/almostgood.jpg)

I tried to use the commands used in "boxplot", to solve this problem. In this commant, 
it's possible to plot different datasets side-by-side by defining the position of the bars 
(example: at = 1:5 - 0.4). A second boxplot-chart can then be added by adding the command 
"add=TRUE" to the line and defining another position. Both commands don't function within 
the scatterplot-command.

By the way: It's realy necessary to plott the data as scatters and not as boxplots. With the command 
"plot", I can not plot the data by groups (I tried it with the commands "subset" and 
"groups", but obviously, there is no way to do so).

Hi Karin,
I would use cluster.overplot in the plotrix package for the scattergram. This will adjust the positions of the points for the two groups so that they form little clusters instead of overplotting. You can color the two sets of points differently as well as use different symbols. Then by adding the two regression lines in the same two colors, you should have an easier to interpret plot.

Jim

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