Re: [R] Customise a symbol in a scatterplot with for loop

2014-03-24 Thread amcc
Thanks for the reply, this is actually not a homework question but a question on a past paper. I am doing exam prep, is this allowed? -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Customise-a-symbol-in-a-scatterplot-with-for-loop-tp4687386p4687389.html Sent from the R help

Re: [R] Customise a symbol in a scatterplot with for loop

2014-03-24 Thread amcc
Thank you Jim, unfortunately I have tried so many variations at this stage and still cannot do it. I am unable to make a list of the coordinates for each of my polygons. I have made lots of different shapes! It is just exam prep, so hopefully nothing like this will be on my exam. Best A --

Re: [R] Customise a symbol in a scatterplot with for loop

2014-03-24 Thread amcc
Apologies Greg for asking you more but what is tmp[,1] doing, I've tried googling it and looking here for it but it's not making sense. A -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Customise-a-symbol-in-a-scatterplot-with-for-loop-tp4687386p4687470.html Sent from the R help

Re: [R] Customise a symbol in a scatterplot with for loop

2014-03-24 Thread amcc
That works, I added pch= and let the radius =0.03 and I get exactly what I wanted. I understand the for loop much better now. Thank you so much for your help Greg. I could get all the x values into a list and the y values also but I could not get them to work in the code that I had. I am

[R] Customise a symbol in a scatterplot with for loop

2014-03-23 Thread amcc
Hi, I have the code below to generate a pentagon in R. I have generated a regular scatterplot and need to draw a scatterplot with a pentagon at each (x,y) position, for the radius use r x 0.3. The hint I've been given is that I do not need to store the polygons in a list, simply construct and