Drawing function in R

There's some function in R could help us to display data：

plot() could be used to draw two vectors

contour()  to create a contour plot

persp() could draw a perspective plot of a surface

image() generate a heat map

abline() draw a line in a plot to help making the data clearly

> weights <- c(300, 200, 100, 250, 150)
> prices <- c(9000, 5000, 12000, 7500, 18000)
> plot(weights, prices)

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><pre name="code" class="plain"> plot(weights, prices, pch = as.integer(types))
 legend("topright", c("gems", "gold", "silver"), pch = 1:3)

There are some attributes in plot() function, which are very important in drawing pictures.

x  assigns the x axis

y assigns the y axis

xlab -- the title of X axis

ylab -- the title of Y axis

col -- the colour of lines -- "red" , "blue",  "black".....

type -- the style of the line

ylim -- the range of Y axis

legend(): Could be used to add legends to a map, illustrating the symbols.

x,y -- the location of legend

legend -- the content of legend

col -- the same as col attribute in plot() function

pch -- the plotting symbols appearing in the legend

lty -- the line types and widths for lines appearing in the legend

Then I will show some demo here. "volcano"  is a data set 87*61, which is a digitized map.

contour(volcano)

 

> persp(volcano)
> persp(volcano, expand = 0.2)

"expand" is a expansion factor applied to the z coordinates. Often used with 0 < expand < 1 to shrink the plotting box in the z direction.

> image(volcano)