[R] Plotting compound functions--help with defining x-axis as f(x)

[Uwe Ligges]

On 25.07.2011 02:34, Aimee Jones wrote:
> Thanks for your assistance, this worked perfectly, and sorry for
> posting in html! I shall check it's plain text for future postings..
>
> Would it be possible for you to explain why this works? I'm unsure as
> to why redefining t works, when t is perfectly defined within the
> script previously.

You tried to pass a function definition to plot() or curve(). That's 
fine. But in a function definition you have to give names to arguments 
that are passed to the function's body. That's R semantic. Just take a 
look in the documentation on how to define fnctions in R.

Best,
Uwe Ligges







> Thank you for any further help,
>
> Aimee
>
> 2011/7/24 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>>
>>
>> On 23.07.2011 00:50, Aimee Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm having trouble locating a script that will allow to me to create graphs
>>> that show compound functions as a function of the simple function, rather
>>> than just x (or time as it is in my case).
>>>
>>> Currently I have the following functions defined in my script:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> T1<-function(t) {27.5-12.5*cos(2*pi*t/365)**}
>>
>> This is not syntactically correct. Perhaps some leftovers of your html message. The posting guide asks you *not* to send html mail!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>> B1<-function(T1,t) {dnorm(T1(t),mean=22.5,sd=**3.3)}
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> plot(function(t) {B1(T1,t)}, 0, 365) plots B1 as a function of time, whereas
>>> I am looking for a code that allows me to plot B1 as a function of T1. I
>>> tried plot(function(T1(t) {B1(T1,t)}, 0, 365) and also plot(function(T1,t)
>>> {B1(T1,t)}, 0, 365), neither of which worked. My coding skills are very
>>> limited, and I'm somewhat out of ideas..
>>
>>
>> So you probably want something along the lines:
>>
>> t<- seq(0, 365, length=1000)
>> plot(T1(t), B1(T1, t), type="l")
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for any assistance you are able to give,
>>> yours sincerely,
>>> Aimee
>>>
>>> ps: If it's relevant I'm using R64 (R 2.11.1) on a Mac
>>>
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