plotFun: Plot one or more functions on a single plot

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Description

A convenient wrapper function for plotting one or more functions on a single plot. If the function(s) is/are expensive to calculate, function values can be calculated in parallel.

Usage

plotFun(fun, xlim, col = rainbow(length(fun)), lty = 1:length(fun),
  type = "l", legendLabels = NULL, relX = 0.7, relY = 0.9,
  nPoints = 1000, njobs = 1, ...)

Arguments

fun	A function or a list of functions to be plotted. These functions should take a single, numeric vector argument and return a corresponding vector of outputs.
xlim	A numeric vector with two elements that define the domain over which the function(s) will be evaluated and plotted, just as in plot.default in the graphics package.
col	A vector of colors to use in the plotting. It's length should match the length of fun. See par for more info about the col graphics parameter.
lty	A vector of line types to use in the plotting. It's length should match the length of fun. See par for more info about the lty graphics parameter.
type	A single character indicating the type of plotting. This is passed to the type argument of plot.default.
legendLabels	A character vector with descriptive names that will appear in the legend, corresponding to each function If NULL, no legend is drawn. This character vector is passed to the legend argument in legend from the graphics package.
relX	A numeric value in [0, 1] designating the relative horizontal (x) position of the legend in the plot.
relY	A numeric value in [0, 1] designating the relative vertical (y) position of the legend in the plot.
nPoints	The number of points that are evaluated and plotted for each function over the interval given by xlim.
njobs	The number of parallel jobs to spawn using doCallParallel.
...	Additional graphical arguments passed to plot.default, lines, and legend. If an argument name specified in ... matches an argument name in any of these three functions, the argument is passed to that function. For example, the line width, lwd, would be passed to all three (plot.default, lines, and legend).

Value

The plot of the function(s)

Author(s)

Landon Sego

Examples

# A single function with a single argument
f <- function(x) x^2
plotFun(f, c(-2, 3), col = "Black", lty = 2, las = 1)

# A handful of beta density functions, note how they take a single argument
fList <- list(function(x) dbeta(x, 10, 10),
              function(y) dbeta(y, 3, 3),
              function(z) dbeta(z, 0.5, 0.50))

# Plot them all on the same plot
plotFun(fList, c(0.0001, 0.9999), ylim = c(0, 3.5),
        col = c("Red", "Black", "Blue"), lty = rep(1, 3),
        xlab = "x", ylab = expression(f(x)),
        legendLabels = c("a = 10, b = 10", "a = 3, b = 3", "a = 0.5, b = 0.5"),
        relX = 0.6, relY = 1, lwd = 3, main = "Gamma Densities")

Example output

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