Keywords: R-US state areas-1D sqrt+extras.svg en 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data square root axis and outliers identified by name Own HYanWong 2009-03-06 Created with R using the following commands <pre> svg file R-US_state_areas-1D_sqrt+extras svg width 5 height 1 5 pointsize 8 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data square root axis and outliers identified by name par mar c 3 4 4 1 +0 1 X <- sqrt state area 2 58998811 stripchart X pch 1 xlim c 0 max X xaxt n xlab expression paste italic landArea thousands of square km mgp c 2 0 5 0 axis 1 sqrt 10 5 0 20 10 2 0 20 cex axis 0 8 mgp c 2 5 0 7 0 las 3 abline v sqrt 10 5 0 20 lty dotted col lightgray title main Size of US states line 2 5 Add outliers outliers <- order match X sort boxplot stats X out na last NA odd <- c TRUE FALSE text Xoutliersodd 1 labels state nameoutliersodd adj -0 2 cex 0 65 srt 35 xpd NA col grey40 text Xoutliers odd 1 labels state nameoutliers odd adj 1 2 cex 0 65 srt 35 xpd NA col grey40 dev off </pre> Dot plots |