Patrick Giraudoux H wrote:

Hi,

Would a specialist of the "point" or "plot" functions try the following:

mat<-matrix(c(1.836767,4.025989,0.6396777,0.3764444),ncol=2)
plot(mat)
points(mat[1,],col="red")

..A lag appears on x for mat [1,1] between the two displays.

I wonder if this example may be due to a bug or to the mis-use of a matrix in the plot() points() functions. In case of mise-use which kind can it be?


It's misuse:

For a matrix, the first column is interpreted as the x-coordinates, the second one as y-coordinates.

For a vector (mat[1,] is a (1D) vector!) plot/points plots the values (as y-coordinates) against their index (1:2 in this case, where 1 is not visible in the plot).

You can use
points(mat[1,,drop=FALSE], col="red")
in order not to drop dimensions, so mat[1,,drop=FASLE] is still a 2-column matrix.


Uwe Ligges



I am working with R 2.0.1 and Windows XP.

Cheers,

Patrick Giraudoux

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