On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 18:27 +0100, Rui Cardoso wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem about graphics. I would like to plot two graphs: a barplot > and curve. Here is the code: > > > barplot(dpois(0:45,20),xlim=c(0,45),names=0:45) > > curve(dnorm(x,20,sqrt(20)),from=0,to=45,add=T) > > Both graphs are drawn in the same figure, however the scale in both graphs > dooes not match. For some reason the second plot is shifted to left. I > think there is a problem concerning the axis scale. > > Thanks a lot. > > Rui
This came up this past summer and Gabor and I had a couple of different approaches to the solution. You can see the posts here: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57431.html and http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/57432.html Using my approach with barplot(), what you need to do is to set the 'space' argument to 0 so that there is no space between the bars. This will then place the bar centers at increments of 0.5, in your case seq(0.5, 45.5, 5). Knowing this, you can then adjust the x axis position in curve() by +0.5 to coincide with the bars. So you end up with this: barplot(dpois(0:45, 20), names = 0:45, space = 0, ylim = c(0, .1)) curve(dnorm(x, 20 + 0.5, sqrt(20)), add = TRUE) HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
