R help - Jun 2010 - Labels for matplot x axis

Hi all, I've been messing with this for a while now..

myStudy is a matrix of word frequency to date of document/document.

As you can see I'm trying to plot the series in the matrix.

I'd like three things --
1- In the plot that gets created the first series is a solid line, the rest
are dashed... how do I make them either one or the other.
2- The legend that comes up has filled boxes with colour as legend keys,
 I'd like to show coloured lines for legend keys instead.
3- The x axis of the plot come up labelled 0-80 with major intervals of
twenty, I'd like to see (@45 degrees) the axis labelled with the rownames
of myStudy, and I'd like to be able to control the interval at which these
major ticks are displayed.

I messed around for an hour or two, and was able to get the rownames on the
x axis using the last command.  I tried using at w/ seq w/ %% but I can't
get the major tick intervals.
> myStudy
          Terms
Docs       china greec greece greek
  20100302    56    91      0    58
  20100303    62    94      0   101
  20100304    20   125      0    85
  20100305    98    77      0    50
  20100306    31    12      0     9
  20100308   125    50      0    32
.
.
.
.
  20100615    75    29      0    13
  20100616    84    21      0     8
  20100617    36    10      0    10
  20100618    60     8      0     7
  20100620   113     4      0     3
  20100621   741     7      5     1
> matplot(myStudy,type="l", main = "Word
Study",xlab="WSJ Print
Date",ylab="Word
Frequency",col=c("blue","red","green"))
>
legend(10,600,colnames(myStudy),fill=c("blue","red","green"))
>axis(1,at=1:95,labels=rownames(myStudy),las=1)
Thanks for your time!!

Nick

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On 06/22/2010 08:05 PM, Nick Torenvliet wrote:
> Hi all, I've been messing with this for a while now..
>
> myStudy is a matrix of word frequency to date of document/document.
>
> As you can see I'm trying to plot the series in the matrix.
>
> I'd like three things --
> 1- In the plot that gets created the first series is a solid line, the rest
> are dashed... how do I make them either one or the other.
lty=1
> 2- The legend that comes up has filled boxes with colour as legend keys,
>   I'd like to show coloured lines for legend keys instead.
specify col=("blue","red","green"),lty=1 instead
of fill()
> 3- The x axis of the plot come up labelled 0-80 with major intervals of
> twenty, I'd like to see (@45 degrees) the axis labelled with the
rownames
> of myStudy, and I'd like to be able to control the interval at which
these
> major ticks are displayed.
try staxlab(1,at=1:95,labels=rownames(myStudy),srt=45,cex=0.5) but you 
will want to stretch the plot out horizontally and adjust the "cex" 
argument to get the best readability.

Jim