R/scatterhist.R

In miguelrh45/MATH4753rund0006: Holds MATH4753 Functions

#' Title Scatter Histogram
#'
#' @param x vector
#' @param y vector
#' @param xlab string
#' @param ylab string
#'
#' @return
#' @export
#'
#' @examples scatterhist(c(1,5,8,7),c(7,2,9,3),"x-axis","y-axis")
scatterhist = function(x, y, xlab="", ylab=""){
  zones=matrix(c(2,0,1,3), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE)
  layout(zones, widths=c(4/5,1/5), heights=c(1/5,4/5))
  xhist = hist(x, plot=FALSE)
  yhist = hist(y, plot=FALSE)
  top = max(c(xhist$counts, yhist$counts))
  par(mar=c(3,3,1,1))
  plot(x,y)
  par(mar=c(0,3,1,1))
  barplot(xhist$counts, axes=FALSE, ylim=c(0, top), space=0)
  par(mar=c(3,0,1,1))
  barplot(yhist$counts, axes=FALSE, xlim=c(0, top), space=0, horiz=TRUE)
  par(oma=c(3,3,0,0))
  mtext(xlab, side=1, line=1, outer=TRUE, adj=0,
        at=.8 * (mean(x) - min(x))/(max(x)-min(x)))
  mtext(ylab, side=2, line=1, outer=TRUE, adj=0,
        at=(.8 * (mean(y) - min(y))/(max(y) - min(y))))
}