rgr (version 1.1.15)

cnpplt: Cumulative Normal Percentage Probability (CPP) Plot

Description

Displays a cumulative normal percentage probability (CPP) plot, equivalent to a Q-Q plot, as has been traditionally used by physical scientists and engineers.

Usage

cnpplt(xx, xlab = deparse(substitute(xx)), 
	ylab = "% Cumulative Probability", log = FALSE, xlim = NULL, 
	main = "", ifqs = FALSE, ifshape = FALSE, pch = 3,
	cex = 0.8, cexp = 1, cex.axis = 0.8, ...)

Arguments

xx

name of the variable to be plotted.

xlab

by default the character string for xx is used for the x-axis title. An alternate title can be displayed with xlab = "text string", see Examples.

ylab

a title for the y-axis, defaults to "% Cumulative Probability".

log

to display the data with logarithmic (x-axis) scaling, set log = TRUE.

xlim

when used in the shape function, xlim is determined by function gx.hist and used to ensure all four panels in shape have the same x-axis scaling. However, when used stand-alone the limits may be user-defined by setting xlim, see Details below.

main

when used stand-alone a title may be added optionally above the plot by setting main, e.g., main = "Kola Ecogeochemistry Project, 1995".

ifqs

setting ifqs = TRUE results in horizontal and vertical dotted lines being plotted at the three central quartiles and their values, respectively.

ifshape

when used with function shape or caplot to plot into a panel set ifshape = TRUE to ensure only essential probability scale axis labels are displayed to avoid overplotting on the reduced size panel plot.

pch

by default the plotting symbol is set to a plus, pch = 3, alternate plotting symbols may be chosen from those displayed by display.marks, see also Note below.

cex

by default the size of the text for data set size, N, is set to 80%, i.e. cex = 0.8, and may be changed if required.

cexp

by default the size of the plotting symbol, pch, is set to 100%, and may be changed if required.

cex.axis

if overplotting occurs in the y-axis labelling the size of the y-axis labels may be reduced by setting cex.axis to a number smaller than the default of cex.axis = 0.8.

…

further arguments to be passed to methods. For example, the size of the axis titles by setting cex.lab, and the size of the plot title by setting cex.main. For example, if it is required to make the plot title smaller, add cex.main = 0.9 to reduce the font size by 10%. The colour of the plotting symbols may be changed from the default black, e.e., col = 2 for red.

Details

If the default selection for xlim is inappropriate it can be set, e.g., xlim = c(0, 200) or c(2, 200), the latter being appropriate for a logarithmically scaled plot, i.e. log = TRUE. If the defined limits lie within the observed data range a truncated plot will be displayed. If this occurs the number of data points omitted is displayed below the total number of observations.

If it is desired to prepare a display of data falling within a defined part of the actual data range, then either a data subset can be prepared externally using the appropriate R syntax, or xx may be defined in the function call as, for example, Cu[Cu < some.value] which would remove the influence of one or more outliers having values greater than some.value. In this case the number of data values displayed will be the number that are <some.value.

See Also

display.marks, ltdl.fix.df, remove.na

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Make test data available
data(kola.o)
attach(kola.o)

## A stand-alone cumulative normal percentage probability plot
cnpplt(Cu)

## A more appropriately labelled and scaled cumulative normal percentage
## probability plot using a cross/x rather than a plus
cnpplt(Cu, xlab = "Cu (mg/kg) in <2 mm O-horizon soil", log = TRUE, 
	pch = 4)

## Detach test data
detach(kola.o)
# }