Control Line Type & Shape of Plot in Base R (Example Code)

This tutorial shows how to modify the lines types in a plot in the R programming language.

Exemplifying Data

x <- 1:10                                                         # Examplifying data
y1 <- 1:10
y2 <- y1 + 1
y3 <- y1 + 2
y4 <- y1 + 3
y5 <- y1 + 4
y6 <- y1 + 5
plot(x, y1, type = "l")                                           # Create default line plot

r graph figure 1 control line type shape base

Example: Create Plot with Different Line Types

plot(x, y1, type = "l", lty = "solid", lwd = 3, ylim = c(1, 15))  # Multiple line types in same graph
lines(x, y2, type = "l", lty = "dashed", lwd = 3, col = 2)
lines(x, y3, type = "l", lty = "dotted", lwd = 3, col = 3)
lines(x, y4, type = "l", lty = "dotdash", lwd = 3, col = 4)
lines(x, y5, type = "l", lty = "longdash", lwd = 3, col = 5)
lines(x, y6, type = "l", lty = "twodash", lwd = 3, col = 6)
legend("topleft",
       c("solid", "dashed", "dotted", "dotdash", "longdash", "twodash"),
       col = 1:6,
       lty = 1:6,
       lwd = 3)

r graph figure 2 control line type shape base

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