[R] 2 questions about probplot in package e1071

[Thomas Adams]

  David,

Thanks! This is very helpful! I'm still very much a novice…

Tom

On 3/26/11 4:11 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:
>
>> The contributed package e1071 does exactly what I want except that I 
>> need to have (1) the abscissa and ordinate axes swapped, with the 
>> probability scale on the bottom and the quantiles scale on the LHS. 
>> Using the following example:
>>
>> library(e1071)
>> x <- rnorm(100, mean=5)
>> probplot(x, line=FALSE)
>>
>> and (2) I need to have lines connecting the plotted symbols, as you 
>> get with:
>>
>> x<-log(seq(1:20))
>> plot(x,type='b')
>>
>> How can I do these two things; I've done a bunch of searching, but 
>> have not come across anything yet.
>
> The code is all there. Just rework it. Type:
>
> probplot
>
> then...
>
> probplot2 <- function(
>
> and paste in your re-worked code that swaps labels, the x and y 
> vectors, and change axis(1) to axis 2 and axis(2, ...) to axis(1, ...) 
> a few other swaps like abline(h=...) to abline(v=...)
>


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