[R] 2D filled.contour plot with 1D histograms by axes

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 8, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Jing Lu wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I hope this question is beyond "read the manual". My task is simple, just
> to plot the following, but the plot in the middle should be a
> filled.contour plot:
> http://gallery.r-enthusiasts.com/graph/Scatterplot_with_marginal_histograms_78
> 
> Background: I prefer filled.contour rather than hist2d. Because, I could
> use kernel smooth, so the plot for discrete data won't be too ugly. I also
> tried image() and then contour(), but the number on contour is not clear
> and no indication about the color.
> 
> My problem: in filled.contour function, it uses layout() for
> filledcontour() plot and rect() plot (color bar). However, I use layout()
> in the outside code to organize 2 histogram and one filled.contour plot.
> Looks like, the layout outside is shadowed by filled.contour(). I am not
> sure how R deal with this problem. Should I rewrite filled.contour()
> somehow?

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA