plot.visreg: Visualization of regression functions
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plot.visreg

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Visualization of regression functions

Description

A function for visualizing regression models quickly and easily. Default plots contain a confidence band, prediction line, and partial residuals. Factors, transformations, conditioning, interactions, and a variety of other options are supported. The plot.visreg() function accepts a visreg or visregList object as calculated by visreg() and creates the plot.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'visreg'
plot(
  x,
  overlay = FALSE,
  print.cond = FALSE,
  whitespace = 0.2,
  partial = identical(x$meta$trans, I),
  band = TRUE,
  rug = ifelse(partial, 0, 2),
  strip.names = is.numeric(x$fit[, x$meta$by]),
  legend = TRUE,
  top = c("line", "points"),
  gg = FALSE,
  line.par = NULL,
  fill.par = NULL,
  points.par = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

`x`	A `visreg` or `visregList` object; see `visreg()`.
`overlay`	By default, when `by` is specified, separate panels are used to display each cross-section. If `overlay=TRUE`, these cross-sections are overlaid on top of each other in a single plot.
`print.cond`	If `print.cond=TRUE`, the explanatory variable values conditioned on in a conditional plot are printed to the console (default: `FALSE`). If `print.cond=TRUE` and `type="contrast"`, the conditions will still be printed, but they have no bearing on the plot unless interactions are present.
`whitespace`	When `xvar` is a factor, `whitespace` determines the amount of space in between factors on the x-axis. Default is 0.2, meaning that 20 percent of the horizontal axis is whitespace.
`partial`	If `partial=TRUE` (the default), partial residuals are shown on the plot.
`band`	If `band=TRUE` (the default), confidence bands are shown on the plot.
`rug`	By default, partial residuals are plotted. Alternatively, a `rug()` may be plotted along the horizontal axis instead. Setting `rug=TRUE` turns off partial residuals by default; if one wants both to be plotted, both `rug=TRUE` and `partial=TRUE` need to be specified. Two types of rug plots are available. If `rug=1` or `rug=TRUE`, then a basic rug is drawn on the bottom. If `rug=2`, then separate rugs are drawn on the top for observations with positive residuals and on the bottom for observations with negative residuals. Such plots are particularly useful in logistic regression (see examples).
`strip.names`	When `by=TRUE`, `strip.names=TRUE` adds the name of the `by` variable to the strip at the top of each panel. Default is `FALSE` for factors and `TRUE` for numeric `by` variables. `strip.names` can also be a character vector, in which case it replaces the strip names altogether with values chosen by the user.
`legend`	For overlay plots, (`overlay=TRUE`), should visreg create a legend? If `legend=TRUE` (the default), a legend is placed in the top margin.
`top`	By default, the fitted line is plotted on top of the partial residuals; usually this is preferable, but it does run the risk of obscuring certain residuals. To change this behavior and plot the partial residuals on top, specify `top='points'`.
`gg`	By default (`gg=FALSE`), `visreg` will use the lattice package to render the plot if multiple panels are required. If `gg=TRUE`, it will use the ggplot2 package instead, provided that it is installed.
`line.par`	List of parameters (see `par()`) to pass to `lines(...)` or `ggplot2::geom_line()` when lines are plotted.
`fill.par`	List of parameters (see `par()`) to pass to `polygon(...)` or `ggplot2::geom_polygon()` when shaded confidence regions are plotted.
`points.par`	List of parameters (`par()`) to pass to `points(...)` or `ggplot2::geom_point()` when partial residuals are plotted.
`...`	Graphical parameters can be passed to the function to customize the plots. If `by=TRUE`, lattice parameters can be passed, such as `layout` (see examples below).

Author(s)

Patrick Breheny and Woodrow Burchett

References

Breheny P and Burchett W. (2017) Visualization of regression models using visreg. R Journal, 9: 56-71. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.32614/RJ-2017-046")}

Examples

fit <- lm(Ozone ~ Solar.R + Wind + Temp,data=airquality)
visreg(fit, "Wind", line=list(col="red"), points=list(cex=1, pch=1))

## Changing appearance
visreg(fit, "Wind", line=list(col="red"), points=list(cex=1, pch=1))

## See ?visreg and https://pbreheny.github.io/visreg for more examples

visreg documentation built on Aug. 21, 2025, 5:50 p.m.