The answer to your first question is curve(ifelse((x>-1)&(x<1),x^2+1,x+2),from=-10,to=10)
Sorry I cannot understand the next part of your query. Ross Darnell On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 00:31 -0700, JHawk3 wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a relatively new user to the R interface, and am trying to do some basic > operations. So far I've used the curve() command to plot graphs. This has a > couple of limitations, namely trying to do piecewise graphs. Basically, I'm > looking for how to do "if" and "while" loops for making a graph. > > in simple code, something like: > > if x is on the interval [-1,1], x=x^2+1 > otherwise, x=x^2 > > something along those lines. I also am wondering if it's possible to graph > something like this: > while(n<20) > { > curve(1/n^2, -1,1) > n++ > } > Along these same lines, is there a way to graph finite series? > > Thank you for your time and your replies. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.