[R] Filling in a uniform dist plot

David Kaplan dkaplan at education.wisc.edu
Sat Aug 15 22:35:16 CEST 2009


Yep.  That's it.  Thanks.

David

 





Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> David Kaplan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Apologies in advance if this is really too simple, but I have given a 
>> good shot at this.  I'm generating a standard uniform distibution
>>
>> y <- dunif(x)
>> plot(x,y,type="l")
>>
>> This will draw a horizontal line at y = 1.  I want to fill the area 
>> from x=(0,1) with a color.  I've tried the polygon command to create 
>> a polygon of the same shape, but can't seem to set the parameters to 
>> fill the figure from x=(0,1).  I'm sure there is an easy way to do 
>> this, but any advice would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Something like
>
> x <- seq(0,1,,10)
> y <- dunif(x)
> plot(x,y, ylim=range(0,y))
> polygon(c(0,x,1), c(0,y,0), col="red", border=NA)
>
>
>> David
>>
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