Visualizing Data in R 4: Graphics Using the base, graphics, stats, and ggplot2 Packages

© Margot Tollefson 2021

M. TollefsonVisualizing Data in R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6831-5_5

5. The Methods of plot( )

Margot Tollefson¹  

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Stratford, IA, USA

 

For a function like plot(), a method of the function is the version of the function that applies to a specific class of objects – such as the class of numeric vectors or the class of time series objects. In this chapter, we cover those methods of plot() in the graphics and stats packages – other than plot.default(). (The function plot.default() is the subject of Chapter 3.) There are eight methods for plot() in the graphics package, and, in the stats package, there are twenty.

5.1 Methods

When plot() is run, plot() finds the class of the first argument and, based on the class, chooses ...