On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 14:28 -0700, r.ookie wrote:
> Well, I had to look further into the documentation to see 'If asp is a
> finite positive value then the window is set up so that one data unit
> in the x direction is equal in length to asp * one data unit in the y
> direction'
>
> Okay, so in what situations is the 'asp' helpful?
If 'x' and 'y' are in the same units but one covers a larger/smaller
range than the other, asp will make the axes be scaled in the same units
such that the distance along the 'y' axis for 1 unit change is the same
as the distance along the 'x' axis for a 1 unit change.
dat <- data.frame(x = seq(1, 100, length = 100),
y = seq(1, 10, length = 100))
layout(matrix(1:2, ncol = 2))
plot(y ~ x, data = dat)
plot(y ~ x, data = dat, asp = 1, main = expression(asp == 1))
layout(1)
If x and y are both in say metres the second plot respects the natural
scale whereas the first doesn't.
G
>
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:24 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:13 PM, r.ookie wrote:
>
> > set.seed(1)
> > x <- rnorm(n = 1000, mean = 0, sd = 1)
> > plot(x = x, asp = 2000)
> >
> > Could someone please explain what the 'asp' parameter is doing?
>
> You want us to read the help page to you?
>
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