Significant goof in my first message. Here is the corrected version:
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(xb,yb,z) ## xb, yb NOT x, y
Fortunately, corrected one also succeeds.
-Don
At 8:06 AM -0700 7/15/05, Don MacQueen wrote:
>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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