# abline

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##### Add Straight Lines to a Plot

This function adds one or more straight lines through the current plot.

Keywords
aplot
##### Usage
abline(a = NULL, b = NULL, h = NULL, v = NULL, reg = NULL,
coef = NULL, untf = FALSE, ...)
##### Arguments
a, b

the intercept and slope, single values.

untf

logical asking whether to untransform. See ‘Details’.

h

the y-value(s) for horizontal line(s).

v

the x-value(s) for vertical line(s).

coef

a vector of length two giving the intercept and slope.

reg

an object with a coef method. See ‘Details’.

graphical parameters such as col, lty and lwd (possibly as vectors: see ‘Details’) and xpd and the line characteristics lend, ljoin and lmitre.

##### Details

Typical usages are

abline(a, b, untf = FALSE, \dots)
abline(h =, untf = FALSE, \dots)
abline(v =, untf = FALSE, \dots)
abline(coef =, untf = FALSE, \dots)
abline(reg =, untf = FALSE, \dots)


The first form specifies the line in intercept/slope form (alternatively a can be specified on its own and is taken to contain the slope and intercept in vector form).

The h= and v= forms draw horizontal and vertical lines at the specified coordinates.

The coef form specifies the line by a vector containing the slope and intercept.

reg is a regression object with a coef method. If this returns a vector of length 1 then the value is taken to be the slope of a line through the origin, otherwise, the first 2 values are taken to be the intercept and slope.

If untf is true, and one or both axes are log-transformed, then a curve is drawn corresponding to a line in original coordinates, otherwise a line is drawn in the transformed coordinate system. The h and v parameters always refer to original coordinates.

The graphical parameters col, lty and lwd can be specified; see par for details. For the h= and v= usages they can be vectors of length greater than one, recycled as necessary.

Specifying an xpd argument for clipping overrides the global par("xpd") setting used otherwise.

##### References

Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.

Murrell, P. (2005) R Graphics. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.

lines and segments for connected and arbitrary lines given by their endpoints. par.
library(graphics) # NOT RUN { ## Setup up coordinate system (with x == y aspect ratio): plot(c(-2,3), c(-1,5), type = "n", xlab = "x", ylab = "y", asp = 1) ## the x- and y-axis, and an integer grid abline(h = 0, v = 0, col = "gray60") text(1,0, "abline( h = 0 )", col = "gray60", adj = c(0, -.1)) abline(h = -1:5, v = -2:3, col = "lightgray", lty = 3) abline(a = 1, b = 2, col = 2) text(1,3, "abline( 1, 2 )", col = 2, adj = c(-.1, -.1)) ## Simple Regression Lines: require(stats) sale5 <- c(6, 4, 9, 7, 6, 12, 8, 10, 9, 13) plot(sale5) abline(lsfit(1:10, sale5)) abline(lsfit(1:10, sale5, intercept = FALSE), col = 4) # less fitting z <- lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars) plot(cars) abline(z) # equivalent to abline(reg = z) or abline(coef = coef(z)) ## trivial intercept model abline(mC <- lm(dist ~ 1, data = cars)) ## the same as abline(a = coef(mC), b = 0, col = "blue") # }