Another approach would be to use ggplot2.?
Code can look a bit daunting to begin with but ggplot2 is a
very versitile graphing package and well worth learning.
Simple example
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library(ggplot2)
mydata <- data.frame(site=c("A","A","A", "B","B","B"), time1 = 1:6, t1=c(23,24,13,7,19,12),
t2=c(7, 4,6,8,5,9))
p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x=time1)) +
geom_point(aes(y= t1, colour= site)) +
geom_point(aes(y = t2, colour=site))
p <- ggplot(mydata, aes(x=time1)) +
geom_point(aes(y= t1, colour= site)) +
geom_point(aes(y = t2, colour=site))
p <- p + scale_x_continuous('Time')+
scale_y_continuous('Temperature')
p
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--- On Mon, 11/21/11, SarahH <sarah.g10 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
From: SarahH <sarah.g10 at hotmail.co.uk> Subject: [R] Scatter plot - using colour to group points? To: r-help at r-project.org Received: Monday, November 21, 2011, 2:17 PM Dear All, I am very new to R - trying to teach myself it for some MSc coursework. I am plotting temperature data for two different sites over the same time period which I have downloaded from a university weather station data archive. I am using the following code to create the plot plot ( x = TEMP3[,"TIME"], y = TEMP3[,"TEMP"], type = "p", col = TEMP3[,"SITE"], pch = 3, main = "Temperature changes", xlab = "Date", ylab = "Temberature[C]") I managed to use col = TEMP3["SITE"] to plot the two different sites( BG1 and EA7) in different colours, but I am struggling to change the colours. I wanted to up a colour scheme to match the site, so tried BG1 <- "blue" EA7 <- "green" before the plot function, but the graphic just came out with red and black as before. There are other datasets in which there are more than two sites so I would really like to learn how to use colour to distinguish between them on a plot. Any direction would be very greatly received! Thank you very much Sarah -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Scatter-plot-using-colour-to-group-points-tp4092794p4092794.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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