[R] How to use the function "plot" as Matlab?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 7/12/05, klebyn <klebyn at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How to use the function plot to produce graphs as Matlab?
> example in Matlab:
> 
> a = [1,2,5,3,6,8,1,7];
> b = [1,7,2,9,2,3,4,5];
> plot(a,'b')
> hold
> plot(b,'r')
> 
> 
> How to make the same in R-package ?
> 
> I am trying something thus:
> 
> a <- c(1,2,5,3,6,8,1,7)
> c(1,7,2,9,2,3,4,5) -> b
> 
> a;b
> 
> plot(a,t="l",col="blue")
> plot(b,t="l",col="red")
> 

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