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: put grids in a plot at specific x points

David Winsemius

Mon, Mar 16, 2009 1:37 PM

grid refers you to abline when"more fine tuning is required", i.e.  
when the situation is not a regular grid.

?abline

abline(v=286.16, lty="dotted")

If you had a vector, vec,  then this should do the trick:

abline(v=vec, lty="dotted")

David Winsemius
On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Laura Rodriguez Murillo wrote:

> Hi dear all!
>
> I wonder if anybody can help me with this:
>
> I have a plot:
> allchr <- read.table("allchrtog.txt", header=F)
>> attach(allchr)
>> names(allchr)
> [1] "V1" "V2" "V3" "V4"
>> plot(V1,V3, type="n")
>> lines(V1,V3)
>
>
> and I want to add grids to the plot but just at specific x points. So
> for example, the first would be at 286.16 in the x axis.
> Does anybody know how can I add these lines?
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> Laura
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

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Laura Rodriguez Murillo : put grids in a plot at specific x points Mar 16 David Winsemius : put grids in a plot at specific x points Mar 16 Laura Rodriguez Murillo : put grids in a plot at specific x points Mar 16