[R] Plotting multiple curves with lattice graphs

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

x <- 1:100
xyplot(dnorm(x, 50, 10) + dnorm(x, 55, 12) + dnorm(x, 60, 15) ~ x, type = "l")

By the way, you can save classic graphics, at least on windows, like this:

### your code
parms <- data.frame(ID=c(1,2,3),mu=c(50,55,60),sigma=c(10,12,15))
curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[1],sd=parms$sigma[1]),from=0,
to=150, ylab="density", col="red")
curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[2],sd=parms$sigma[2]),from=0,
to=150, ylab="density", col="blue", add=TRUE)
curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[3],sd=parms$sigma[3]),from=0,
to=150, ylab="density", col="forestgreen", add=TRUE)
###

myplot <- recordPlot()
title("Title A")

# replay the plot with Title B
replayPlot(myplot)
title("Title B")



On 4/5/07, Karen Chiswell <karenc2204 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I would like to plot multiple curves (parametric
> density curves) in one plot.
>
> For example:
> # parameters for three normal density curves
> parms =
> data.frame(ID=c(1,2,3),mu=c(50,55,60),sigma=c(10,12,15))
>
> # I can easily draw three normal density curves using
> curve():
> curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[1],sd=parms$sigma[1]),from=0,
> to=150, ylab="density", col="red")
> curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[2],sd=parms$sigma[2]),from=0,
> to=150, ylab="density", col="blue", add=TRUE)
> curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[3],sd=parms$sigma[3]),from=0,
> to=150, ylab="density", col="forestgreen", add=TRUE)
>
> but I would like to use lattice graphics (even though
> I only want one panel) because I want to save the
> resulting plot in an object.
>
> I could create a dataframe that contains the values I
> want to plot, and then plot using xyplot().  For
> example,
>
> x = seq(from=0, to=150, length=100)
> plot.df = data.frame(ID=rep(parms$ID,each=100),
> x=rep(x,3),mu=rep(parms$mu,each=100),sigma=rep(parms$sigma,each=100))
> plot.df$d =
> dnorm(plot.df$x,mean=plot.df$mu,sd=plot.df$sigma)
>
> require(lattice)
> p=xyplot(d~x, data=plot.df, groups=ID, type="l")
>
> However...  is there a more elegant/efficient way to
> do this?  I have tried using the panel.curve panel
> function (with xyplot() and histogram()), but I am not
> very experienced with using panel functions (or R
> actually), and I haven't had any success with this
> yet.
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions,
> Karen
>
> -------------------------------
> Karen Chiswell
> Department of Statistics
> North Carolina State University
> -------------------------------
>
>
>
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