[R] plotting overlapping data points

Edward Hagen e.hagen at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Sun Nov 18 14:12:23 CET 2001


Oops...I think I first learned about jitter from the R-documentation
(but then forgot this)!  Is there any way to plot petals?

Thanks for your rapid reply!

Ed.

Jens Nieschulze wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Edward Hagen wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am just learning to use R.  The data from my current project are
> > integer-valued.  I am able to create scatterplots, but I would like to
> > have some indication on the plots when multiple data points overlap at
> > the same x-y coordinate. SPSS uses 'petals', and other packages use
> > jitter.  Are there similar options in R?  I have not been able to find
> > any in the documentation.
> 
> jitter?????????
> as in
> x<-c(2,2,3,3,5)
> y<-c(2,2,4,4,7)
> plot(x,jitter(y))
> ?
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> >
> > Ed.
> >
> > ps. Please respond to this email address as I am not subscribed to the
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