Keywords: R-US state areas-1D.svg en 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data outliers identified by name Data US state areas own HYanWong 2009-03-06 Created with R using the following commands <pre> svg file R-US_state_areas-1D svg width 5 height 1 5 pointsize 8 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data outliers identified by name Data US state areas par mar c 4 1 3 1 +0 1 X <- state area 2 58998811/1000 stripchart X pch 1 xlab expression paste italic landArea thousands of square km xaxt n axis 1 seq 0 2e3 100 cex axis 0 8 las 2 abline v seq 0 2e3 100 lty dotted col lightgray title Size of US states Label outliers outliers <- order match X sort boxplot stats X out na last NA odd <- c TRUE FALSE text Xoutliers odd 1 labels state nameoutliers odd adj -0 2 cex 0 65 srt 45 xpd NA col grey40 text Xoutliersodd 1 labels state nameoutliersodd adj 1 2 cex 0 65 srt 45 xpd NA col grey40 dev off </pre> Dot plots |