[R] Fitting a line to a qqplot's points?

[ian white]

See also ?shapiro.test which is effectively based on this correlation
coefficient.


On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 00:13 -0400, Paul Lynch wrote:
> I've made some normal plots of my data using qqplot, and now
> I would like to fit a line to the points on the plot and
> check the correlation coefficient to have a more objective measure
> of how straight the line is.  Is there a simple way of doing that?
> (I'm still pretty new to R.)
> 
> Thanks,
>    --Paul
> 


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