graphics (version 3.5.3)

lines: Add Connected Line Segments to a Plot

Description

A generic function taking coordinates given in various ways and joining the corresponding points with line segments.

Usage

lines(x, …)
# S3 method for default
lines(x, y = NULL, type = "l", …)

Arguments

x, y

coordinate vectors of points to join.

type

character indicating the type of plotting; actually any of the types as in plot.default.

…

Further graphical parameters (see par) may also be supplied as arguments, particularly, line type, lty, line width, lwd, color, col and for type = "b", pch. Also the line characteristics lend, ljoin and lmitre.

Details

The coordinates can be passed in a plotting structure (a list with x and y components), a two-column matrix, a time series, …. See xy.coords. If supplied separately, they must be of the same length.

The coordinates can contain NA values. If a point contains NA in either its x or y value, it is omitted from the plot, and lines are not drawn to or from such points. Thus missing values can be used to achieve breaks in lines.

For type = "h", col can be a vector and will be recycled as needed.

lwd can be a vector: its first element will apply to lines but the whole vector to symbols (recycled as necessary).

References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

See Also

lines.formula for the formula method; points, particularly for type %in% c("p","b","o"), plot, and the workhorse function plot.xy.

abline for drawing (single) straight lines.

par for line type (lty) specification and how to specify colors.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# draw a smooth line through a scatter plot
plot(cars, main = "Stopping Distance versus Speed")
lines(stats::lowess(cars))
# }