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n.plot

Name Plot: Names or Numbers instead of Points in Plot

Description

A utility function which basically calls plot(*, type="n") and text. To have names or numbers instead of points in a plot is useful for identifaction, e.g., in a residual plot, see also TA.plot.

Usage

n.plot(x, y = NULL, nam = NULL, abbr = n >= 20 || max(nchar(nam))>=8,
       xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL, log = "",
       cex = par("cex"), col = par("col"), ...)

Arguments

`x,y`	coordinates at which to plot. If `y` is missing, `x` is used for both, if it's a `data.frame, list`, 2-column matrix etc – via `xy.coords`; formula do not work.
`nam`	the labels to plot at each (x,y). Per default, these taken from the data `x` and `y`; case numbers `1:n` are taken if no names are available.
`abbr`	logical indicating if the `nam` labels should be abbreviated – with a sensible default.
`xlab,ylab`	labels for the x- and y- axis, the latter being empty by default.
`log`	character specifying if log scaled axes should be used, see `plot.default`.
`cex`	plotting character expansion, see `par`.
`col`	color to use for `text()`.
`...`	further arguments to be passed to the `plot` call.

Value

invisibly, a character vector with the labels used.

Author(s)

Martin Maechler, since 1992

Examples

n.plot(1:20, cumsum(rnorm(20)))
 data(cars)
 with(cars, n.plot(speed, dist, cex = 0.8, col = "forest green"))

sfsmisc

Utilities from 'Seminar fuer Statistik' ETH Zurich

v1.1-11

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Martin Maechler [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8685-9910>), Werner Stahel [ctb] (Functions: compresid2way(), f.robftest(), last(), p.scales(), p.dnorm()), Andreas Ruckstuhl [ctb] (Functions: p.arrows(), p.profileTraces(), p.res.2x()), Christian Keller [ctb] (Functions: histBxp(), p.tachoPlot()), Kjetil Halvorsen [ctb] (Functions: KSd(), ecdf.ksCI()), Alain Hauser [ctb] (Functions: cairoSwd(), is.whole(), toLatex.numeric()*), Christoph Buser [ctb] (to function Duplicated()), Lorenz Gygax [ctb] (to function p.res.2fact()), Bill Venables [ctb] (Functions: empty.dimnames(), primes()), Tony Plate [ctb] (to inv.seq()), Isabelle Fl<fc>ckiger [ctb], Marcel Wolbers [ctb], Markus Keller [ctb], Sandrine Dudoit [ctb], Jane Fridlyand [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb] (to loessDemo()), Henrik Aa. Nielsen [ctb] (to loessDemo()), Vincent Carey [ctb], Ben Bolker [ctb], Philippe Grosjean [ctb], Fr<e9>d<e9>ric Ibanez [ctb], Caterina Savi [ctb], Charles Geyer [ctb], Jens Oehlschl<e4>gel [ctb]

Initial release

2021-04-03