I figured this out so I wanted to post a response to my own question. Thanks to Brian Ripley for his hint, which got me looking in the right direction. The plot I had seen before that I wanted was automatic output to the cor.plot command in the mvoutlier library. A similar tolerance ellipse can be obtained from the covPlot command in the robustbase library, using which="tolEllipsePlot" and classic=T. Dr. Jenifer Larson-Hall Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of North Texas (940)369-8950