[R] Plotting multiple curves with lattice graphs

From: Karen Chiswell <karenc2204_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu 05 Apr 2007 - 13:50:39 GMT

Hi List,

I would like to plot multiple curves (parametric density curves) in one plot.

For example:
# parameters for three normal density curves
parms =
data.frame(ID=c(1,2,3),mu=c(50,55,60),sigma=c(10,12,15))

# I can easily draw three normal density curves using
curve():
curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[1],sd=parms$sigma[1]),from=0, to=150, ylab="density", col="red")
curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[2],sd=parms$sigma[2]),from=0, to=150, ylab="density", col="blue", add=TRUE) curve(dnorm(x,mean=parms$mu[3],sd=parms$sigma[3]),from=0, to=150, ylab="density", col="forestgreen", add=TRUE)

but I would like to use lattice graphics (even though I only want one panel) because I want to save the resulting plot in an object.  

I could create a dataframe that contains the values I want to plot, and then plot using xyplot(). For example,

x = seq(from=0, to=150, length=100)
plot.df = data.frame(ID=rep(parms$ID,each=100), x=rep(x,3),mu=rep(parms$mu,each=100),sigma=rep(parms$sigma,each=100)) plot.df$d =
dnorm(plot.df$x,mean=plot.df$mu,sd=plot.df$sigma)

require(lattice)
p=xyplot(d~x, data=plot.df, groups=ID, type="l")

However... is there a more elegant/efficient way to do this? I have tried using the panel.curve panel function (with xyplot() and histogram()), but I am not very experienced with using panel functions (or R actually), and I haven't had any success with this yet.

Many thanks for any suggestions,
Karen

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Karen Chiswell
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University

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