[R] Adding picture to graph?

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Jul 29 16:29:38 CEST 2009


I'm not sure if you can consider grid graphics. If so, then Murrell  
has some nice worked examples in:

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/gddg.pdf


On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote:

> while teaching R, the question came up if it would be possible to add
> a picture (saved on the HDD) to a graph (generated by plot()), which
> we could not answer.
>
> It might easily kill a clean graph, but: is there a way of doing this,
> even one should not do it?
>
> On a similar line of thought: is it possibe to define own symbols so
> that they can be used in the plot function with pch=?
>
> Rainer
> -- 
> Rainer M. Krug, Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology,
> Stellenbosch University, South Africa

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT




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