[R] Difficulty with formatting scatter.smooth output

[J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk]

Quoting Bing Ho <2bingho at stanford.edu>:

> Hello,
>
> I have been using scatter.smooth and been trying to format my plots
> and been unable to adjust the line type or color of the smooth curve.
>
> When I specify col in scatter.smooth, I can adjust the color of the
> scatter plot points, but the line always stays black and solid. lty
> has no effect.
>
> When I specify par prior to calling scatter.smooth, col will change
> the color of the points, smoothed line, and bounding box. lty,
> col.axis, col.lab work as expected.
>
> What I would like to be able to do is format each element of the graph
> specifically - bounding box, points, and smoothed curve.
>
> Thank you for any advice.

Hi Bing,

I had exactly the same requirement, so I modified the original  
function where you can specify different colours, line widths, etc...  
(and you can easily add other parameters the same way). I'm attaching  
my version here, in case it saves you 2 minutes of typing :-)

Jose

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