[R] About regression and plot

[Romain Francois]

Le 26.04.2006 15:16, Daniel Yang a écrit :
> Dear R-help,
>
> This is my first R day.  I want to ask some more beginner's questions.
>
> Q1. How can I obtain the covariance matrix for parameter estimates of a multiple regression?  I checked ?lm but didn't get the information.
>
> Q2. How can I see the old graphs in the graph window?
>
> Q3. Can R plot animated graph?  For example, I want to see the dynamic change of a 2D graph during a time period.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Yung-jui Yang
>   
Welcome here,

You might want to learn R a few days, read the docs, etc .. and then 
come back with questions.
That's how you will get the most of R.

R2 :
you can't, but you can open more than one graph at a time, with 
?windows, or ?x11 or send a graphic to a file : ?pdf, ?png, ...
Or you reexecute the commands

R3 :
For a live animation :
x <- rnorm(100)
for(i in 1:100){
  plot(1:i, x[1:i], xlim=c(0,100), ylim=range(x), type="l")
  Sys.sleep(.1)
}

You may want to save each graphic in a file and then build an animation 
using convert (from ImageMagick) or whatever tools you have.

In R :

png('gr_%04d.png', width=600, height=400)
x <- rnorm(100)
for(i in 1:100){
  plot(1:i, x[1:i], xlim=c(0,100), ylim=range(x), type="l")
}
dev.off()

 From a shell :
$ convert *.png out.gif

See also :
http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/plaisirs/animations/index.html
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rquantlib-rgl.html

Romain

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