[R] R question for Stata users

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at comcast.net
Sun Apr 20 01:09:56 CEST 2008


Joe Trubisz wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> In Stata, there is the ability to display scatter plots with data  
> points at the same (x,y)
> location, using the 'jitter' command of the twoway scatter stata  
> command.
> 
> Anyone know of a way that I can do the equivalent thing in R?
> 
> For non-Stata readers, if jitter is enabled in stata, and n-points  
> would be at
> the same (x,y) location, the points are offset a bit (according to  
> the jitter parameter)
> and you see all the points, though slightly offset from the original  
> location.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe

The same way.

See ?jitter, which:

   help.search("jitter")

would have pointed you to.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz



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