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Add Connected Line Segments to a Plot
Syntax
lines(x, y, ...)
lines.default(x, y=NULL, type="l", col=par("col"), ...)
Arguments
x, y
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coordinate vectors of points to join.
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type
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characer indicating the type of plotting; actually any of
the types as in plot(..).
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col
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color to use.
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...
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Further graphical parameters (see par) may
also be supplied as arguments, e.g., lty.
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Description
lines is a generic function taking the coordinates given in the x
and y vectors and joining the corresponding points with line segments.
The coordinates can alternatively be passed to lines
in a plotting structure (a list with x and y components),
a time series, etc.
See Also
points, plot.
Examples
data(cars)
# draw a smooth line through a scatter plot
plot(cars, main="Stopping Distance versus Speed")
lines(lowess(cars))