I think you have it backwards (the error message not withstanding).
Read the documentation for image, note the beginning of the Details
section, and then compare these two examples, both of which succeed
on my system (R 2.1.1).

x <- 1:10
y <- 1:15
z <- outer(x,y)
image(x,y,z)

xb <- c(.5,x+.5)
yb <- c(.5,y+.5)
image(x,y,z)

x and y provide either the centers of the cells, or the boundaries of
the cells. In the latter case, the lengths of x and y should be 1
greater than the dim of z, not one less.

(I'm including my full version info to be complete, but I doubt that
you problem has to do with your platform [OS]).

-Don

> version
      _              
platform powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
arch   powerpc          
os     darwin7.9.0        
system  powerpc, darwin7.9.0  
status                  
major   2              
minor   1.1              
year   2005            
month   06              
day    20              
language R              


At 7:23 AM -0700 7/15/05, Pete Cap wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Can anyone point me to a decent introduction to using the plotting
>and assorted graphics functions in R?
>
>I keep getting simple errrors and I can't figure out why, for example:
>
>> image(x,y,z)
>Error in image.default(x, y, z) : dimensions of z are not
>length(x)(+1) times length(y)(+1)
>> length(x)
>[1] 206
>> length(y)
>[1] 40
>> dim(z)
>[1] 207 41
>
>
>It seems to me as if R is wrong--the matrix z is obviously of
>length(x)+1 times length(y)+1--but just as obviously I'm missing
>something essential. Are there any "newbie" guides out there for
>getting started?
>TIA,
>
>Pete
>
>
>
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