interaction.plot {stats} R Documentation

## Two-way Interaction Plot

### Description

Plots the mean (or other summary) of the response for two-way combinations of factors, thereby illustrating possible interactions.

### Usage

interaction.plot(x.factor, trace.factor, response, fun = mean,
type = c("l", "p", "b", "o", "c"), legend = TRUE,
trace.label = deparse1(substitute(trace.factor)),
fixed = FALSE,
xlab = deparse1(substitute(x.factor)),
ylab = ylabel,
ylim = range(cells, na.rm = TRUE),
lty = nc:1, col = 1, pch = c(1:9, 0, letters),
xpd = NULL, leg.bg = par("bg"), leg.bty = "n",
xtick = FALSE, xaxt = par("xaxt"), axes = TRUE,
...)


### Arguments

 x.factor a factor whose levels will form the x axis. trace.factor another factor whose levels will form the traces. response a numeric variable giving the response. fun the function to compute the summary. Should return a single real value. type the type of plot (see plot.default): lines or points or both. legend logical. Should a legend be included? trace.label overall label for the legend. fixed logical. Should the legend be in the order of the levels of trace.factor (TRUE) or in the order of the traces at their right-hand ends (FALSE, the default)? xlab,ylab the x and y label of the plot each with a sensible default. ylim numeric of length 2 giving the y limits for the plot. lty line type for the lines drawn, with sensible default. col the color to be used for plotting. pch a vector of plotting symbols or characters, with sensible default. xpd determines clipping behaviour for the legend used, see par(xpd). Per default, the legend is not clipped at the figure border. leg.bg, leg.bty arguments passed to legend(). xtick logical. Should tick marks be used on the x axis? xaxt, axes, ... graphics parameters to be passed to the plotting routines.

### Details

By default the levels of x.factor are plotted on the x axis in their given order, with extra space on the right for the legend (if specified). If x.factor is an ordered factor and the levels are numeric, these numeric values are used for the x axis.

The response and hence its summary can contain missing values. If so, the missing values and the line segments joining them are omitted from the plot (and this can be somewhat disconcerting).

The graphics parameters xlab, ylab, ylim, lty, col and pch are given suitable defaults (and xlim and xaxs are set and cannot be overridden). The defaults are to cycle through the line types, use the foreground colour, and to use the symbols 1:9, 0, and the small letters to plot the traces.

### Note

Some of the argument names and the precise behaviour are chosen for S-compatibility.

### References

Chambers, J. M., Freeny, A and Heiberger, R. M. (1992) Analysis of variance; designed experiments. Chapter 5 of Statistical Models in S eds J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

### Examples

require(graphics)

with(ToothGrowth, {
interaction.plot(dose, supp, len, fixed = TRUE)
dose <- ordered(dose)
interaction.plot(dose, supp, len, fixed = TRUE,
col = 2:3, leg.bty = "o", xtick = TRUE)
interaction.plot(dose, supp, len, fixed = TRUE, col = 2:3, type = "p")
})

with(OrchardSprays, {
interaction.plot(treatment, rowpos, decrease)
interaction.plot(rowpos, treatment, decrease, cex.axis = 0.8)
## order the rows by their mean effect
rowpos <- factor(rowpos,
levels = sort.list(tapply(decrease, rowpos, mean)))
interaction.plot(rowpos, treatment, decrease, col = 2:9, lty = 1)
})



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