Overlay Scatter Plots in R
To overlay a scatter plot in the R language, we use the points() function. The points() function is a generic function that overlays a scatter plot by taking coordinates from a data frame and plotting the corresponding points. We can further customize that scatter plot by using the pch, and col parameters to customize point shape, and point color respectively.
Syntax:
points( x, y, pch, col )
Parameter:
- x and y: determine the x-axis and y-axis variables respectively.
- pch: determines the point shape.
- col: determines the color of points.
Example: Overlay scatter plot
R
# define sample data frames sample_data <- data.frame(x=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5), y1 = c(7, 10, 26, 39, 5), y2 = c(4, 14, 16, 29, 15), y3 = c(2, 13, 36, 19, 25), y4 = c(8, 11, 6, 9, 35)) # create base scatter plot plot(sample_data$x, sample_data$y1) # overlay scatter plot points(sample_data$x, sample_data$y2, col='green', pch=12) points(sample_data$x, sample_data$y3, col='red', pch=13) points(sample_data$x, sample_data$y4, col='blue') |
Output:
How to Overlay Plots in R?
In this article, we will discuss how to overlay plots in the R Programming Language.
Overlaying is a technique that is used to draw multiple plots on a single frame. To draw multiple plots in the R Language, we draw a basic plot and add an overlay line plot or scatter plot by using the lines() and the points() function. This line and scatter plot overlay can be drawn on top of any layer in the R Language.
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