📈Generic Plot Types

The plot() function in R is the function to create the most basic type of plots.

A simplified format of the function is:

plot(x, y, type="p")

Here,

• x and y: the coordinates of points to plot

• type: the type of graph to create; Possible values are :

  • type=“p”: for points (by default)

  • type=“l”: for lines

  • type=“b”: for both; points are connected by a line

  • type=“o”: for both ‘overplotted’;

  • type=“h”: for ‘histogram’ like vertical lines

  • type=“s”: for stair steps

  • type=“n”: for no plotting

Example

# Data
x<-1:10; y=x**3

# Create different plots
plot(x,y, type="p")
plot(x,y, type="b")
plot(x,y, type="h")
plot(x,y, type="s")

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