Dear R users,
I still feel new to R so please apologize if I am doing something stupid
here. My use of the polygon() function produces a result that I cannot
comprehend: In a plot, I would like to shade the area below a normal
distribution. However, I do not want the entire area to be shaded, but
just the area on the right side of a vertical line that I draw through
the distribution (in order to illustrate the function of a t-test). Here
is what I do:
scale <- 0.1
x <- seq(-4, 6, scale)
y <- dnorm(x)
plot(x, y, type = "l", main="t-Test, t = 2.2")
linepos <- 2.2
abline(v = linepos)
# I try to fill a polygon right of the vertical line:
# max(x) - linepos (in this case, 2.2) / scale (0.1)
# results in the last 38 elements of x and y.
# so I take the last 38 elements of x and y and try to
# draw a polygon underneath:
cutpoint <- (max(x) - linepos) / scale
xt <- x[(length(x)-cutpoint):length(x)]
yt <- y[(length(y)-cutpoint):length(y)]
# draw the polygon
polygon(xt, yt, density = 10 )
As you can see in the result, this is not what I want; some area above
the line gets shaded, but not below. Can someone tell me what I am missing?
Thank you very much,
Bertolt
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Bertolt Meyer
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