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Graph superimposition

2 messages · Marc Feldesman, Peter Dalgaard

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Marc Feldesman
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I'm running a four-group, 15-variable discriminant analysis using the MASS 
function lda().  Discriminant functions 1 and 2 explain about 93% of the 
variance.  I would like to plot the group scatters in a single scatterplot, 
identify each group's centroid, and encircle the group scatter with a 90% 
bivariate confidence ellipse.  I can do this for each group on a separate 
plot, but I cannot figure out how to place all information on a single 
plot.   In S-Plus I use trellis graphics with panel.superpose as a trellis 
option.

I know that R does not support trellis graphics, but is there another way 
to accomplish this in R?  (I'm using 1.0.1 under Windows NT 4).

Thanks for your help.

P.S.  My needs stem from wanting to use "R" as the statistical language for 
a course I'm teaching next Fall.


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Peter Dalgaard
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Marc Feldesman <feldesmanm at pdx.edu> writes:
Well, you can always superimpose plots by using the following paradigm

  plot(1:10)
  par(new=T)
  plot(1:10,cex=2)

There might be a simpler way using the features for adding items to
a plot (e.g. points(), lines()).