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pairs {graphics}

Scatterplot Matrices
Package: 
graphics
Version: 
R 2.15.3

Description

A matrix of scatterplots is produced.

Usage

pairs(x, ...)
 
## S3 method for class 'formula':
pairs((formula, data = NULL, ..., subset,
      na.action = stats::na.pass))

## S3 method for class 'default':
pairs((x, labels, panel = points, ...,
      lower.panel = panel, upper.panel = panel,
      diag.panel = NULL, text.panel = textPanel,
      label.pos = 0.5 + has.diag/3,
      cex.labels = NULL, font.labels = 1,
      row1attop = TRUE, gap = 1))

Arguments

x
the coordinates of points given as numeric columns of a matrix or dataframe. Logical and factor columns are converted to numeric in the same way that data.matrix does.
formula
a formula, such as ~ x + y + z. Each term will give a separate variable in the pairs plot, so terms should be numeric vectors. (A response will be interpreted as another variable, but not treated specially, so it is confusing to use one.)
data
a data.frame (or list) from which the variables in formula should be taken.
subset
an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used for plotting.
na.action
a function which indicates what should happen when the data contain NAs. The default is to pass missing values on to the panel functions, but na.action = na.omit will cause cases with missing values in any of the variables to be omitted entirely.
labels
the names of the variables.
panel
function(x, y, ...) which is used to plot the contents of each panel of the display.
...
arguments to be passed to or from methods. Also, graphical parameters can be given as can arguments to plot such as main. par("oma") will be set appropriately unless specified.
lower.panel, upper.panel
separate panel functions to be used below and above the diagonal respectively.
diag.panel
optional function(x, ...) to be applied on the diagonals.
text.panel
optional function(x, y, labels, cex,       font, ...) to be applied on the diagonals.
label.pos
y position of labels in the text panel.
cex.labels, font.labels
graphics parameters for the text panel.
row1attop
logical. Should the layout be matrix-like with row 1 at the top, or graph-like with row 1 at the bottom?
gap
Distance between subplots, in margin lines.

Details

The ijth scatterplot contains x[,i] plotted against x[,j]. The scatterplot can be customised by setting panel functions to appear as something completely different. The off-diagonal panel functions are passed the appropriate columns of x as x and y: the diagonal panel function (if any) is passed a single column, and the text.panel function is passed a single (x, y) location and the column name.

The graphical parameters pch and col can be used to specify a vector of plotting symbols and colors to be used in the plots.

The graphical parameter oma will be set by pairs.default unless supplied as an argument.

A panel function should not attempt to start a new plot, but just plot within a given coordinate system: thus plot and boxplot are not panel functions.

By default, missing values are passed to the panel functions and will often be ignored within a panel. However, for the formula method and na.action = na.omit, all cases which contain a missing values for any of the variables are omitted completely (including when the scales are selected).

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Examples

pairs(iris[1:4], main = "Anderson's Iris Data -- 3 species",
      pch = 21, bg = c("red", "green3", "blue")[unclass(iris$Species)])
 
## formula method
pairs(~ Fertility + Education + Catholic, data = swiss,
      subset = Education < 20, main = "Swiss data, Education < 20")
 
pairs(USJudgeRatings)
 
## put histograms on the diagonal
panel.hist <- function(x, ...)
{
    usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
    par(usr = c(usr[1:2], 0, 1.5) )
    h <- hist(x, plot = FALSE)
    breaks <- h$breaks; nB <- length(breaks)
    y <- h$counts; y <- y/max(y)
    rect(breaks[-nB], 0, breaks[-1], y, col = "cyan", ...)
}
pairs(USJudgeRatings[1:5], panel = panel.smooth,
      cex = 1.5, pch = 24, bg = "light blue",
      diag.panel = panel.hist, cex.labels = 2, font.labels = 2)
 
## put (absolute) correlations on the upper panels,
## with size proportional to the correlations.
panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits = 2, prefix = "", cex.cor, ...)
{
    usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
    par(usr = c(0, 1, 0, 1))
    r <- abs(cor(x, y))
    txt <- format(c(r, 0.123456789), digits = digits)[1]
    txt <- paste(prefix, txt, sep = "")
    if(missing(cex.cor)) cex.cor <- 0.8/strwidth(txt)
    text(0.5, 0.5, txt, cex = cex.cor * r)
}
pairs(USJudgeRatings, lower.panel = panel.smooth, upper.panel = panel.cor)

Author(s)

Enhancements for R 1.0.0 contributed by Dr. Jens Oehlschlaegel-Akiyoshi and R-core members.

Documentation reproduced from R 2.15.3. License: GPL-2.