R help - Jul 2005 - Complex plotting in R

Hi list,

I'm looking for a function or a combination of functions to do panel
plotting of mixed graph types with the same x axis.

I would like to construct a panel with 3 stacked windows with on top a
histogram, below that 2 cdf plots. They all have the same x axis value but
different y axis values. Is it possible to construct something like that?

I've looked into the lattice package but it doesn't seem to solve my
problem because I clearly want 1 x axis for all the graphs so not just a panel
with 3 full graphs.

Something like this:

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/faq/InfluencePlots6.gif

(copyright to whom copyright is due...)

but with the top and bottom graphs merged.

Best regards,
Koen Hufkens

First call par(mfrow = c(2,2)) to get four plots in one panel
then plot your top figures using
plot(x, xaxt="n")#this will generate the plot withoput displaying the
x axis
and then plot your bottom figures keeping the axis (without using
xaxt="n")

You may want to fix the x axis limits to match between figures using the 
argument xlim=c(min,max) within plot()

More details in your note would have been helpful to give you better 
guidance

Cheers

Francisco

>From: "koen.hufkens at pandora.be" <koen.hufkens at
telenet.be>
>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] Complex plotting in R
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:51:18 +0000
>
>Hi list,
>
>I'm looking for a function or a combination of functions to do panel 
>plotting of mixed graph types with the same x axis.
>
>I would like to construct a panel with 3 stacked windows with on top a 
>histogram, below that 2 cdf plots. They all have the same x axis value but 
>different y axis values. Is it possible to construct something like that?
>
>I've looked into the lattice package but it doesn't seem to solve my
>problem because I clearly want 1 x axis for all the graphs so not just a 
>panel with 3 full graphs.
>
>Something like this:
>
>http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/faq/InfluencePlots6.gif
>
>(copyright to whom copyright is due...)
>
>but with the top and bottom graphs merged.
>
>Best regards,
>Koen Hufkens
>
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On 7/12/05, koen.hufkens at pandora.be <koen.hufkens at telenet.be>
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm looking for a function or a combination of functions to do panel
plotting of mixed graph types with the same x axis.
> 
> I would like to construct a panel with 3 stacked windows with on top a
histogram, below that 2 cdf plots. They all have the same x axis value but
different y axis values. Is it possible to construct something like that?
> 
> I've looked into the lattice package but it doesn't seem to solve
my problem because I clearly want 1 x axis for all the graphs so not just a
panel with 3 full graphs.
> 
Multiple graph types in lattice would need a lot of hacking. If you
are feeling adventurous, you might want to try using grid graphics
(the 'grid' package) directly.

Deepayan