flashy.plot: A flashy scatter plot

In TRSbook: Functions and Datasets to Accompany the Book "The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis"

Description

This function tries to make a nicer plot than the one given by the plot() function for two quantitative variables

Usage

flashy.plot(x,y,my.factor, family = "Courier",xlab="",ylab="")

Arguments

x	numeric vector
y	numeric vector
my.factor	factor
family	font family for the title. Default is "Courier". Another choice can be, e.g., "HersheyScript"
xlab	character. x label
ylab	character. y label

Value

A flashy scatter plot

Author(s)

Lafaye de Micheaux Pierre <[e-mail]>, Remy Drouilhet <[e-mail]>, Liquet Benoit <[e-mail]>

References

Chapter 11 (Descriptive Statistics) from the book: The R Software, Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis

See Also

plot

Examples

data(NUTRIELDERLY)
attach(NUTRIELDERLY)
gender <- as.factor(gender)
levels(gender) <- c("Male","Female")
flashy.plot(weight,height,gender,xlab="Height",ylab="Weight")
detach(NUTRIELDERLY)

Example output

Loading required package: xtable
Loading required package: RColorBrewer
Loading required package: gdata
gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED.

gdata: read.xls support for 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files ENABLED.

Attaching package: 'gdata'

The following object is masked from 'package:stats':

    nobs

The following object is masked from 'package:utils':

    object.size

The following object is masked from 'package:base':

    startsWith

Loading required package: IndependenceTests

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