[R] Line plots in base graphics

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 21:58:49 CEST 2011


Hadley Wickham <hadley <at> rice.edu> writes:

> 
> Am I missing something obvious on how to draw multi-line plots in
> base graphics?
> 
> In ggplot2, I can do:
> 
data(Oxboys, package = "nlme")
library(ggplot2)
 
qplot(age, height, data = Oxboys, geom = "line", group = Subject)
 
> But in base graphics, the best I can come up with is this:
> 
with(Oxboys, plot(age, height, type = "n"))
lapply(split(Oxboys[c("age", "height")], Oxboys$Subject), lines)

[quoting removed to fool gmane] 
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 

 reshape to wide format and matplot()?



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