Keywords: R-US state areas-1D log+extras.svg en 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data logged axis and 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_log+extras svg width 5 height 1 5 pointsize 8 1D horizontal scatter plot aka dot plot or strip plot example with continuous data logged axis and outliers identified by name Data US state areas par mar c 3 4 4 1 +0 1 X <- log10 state area 2 58998811 stripchart X pch 1 xaxt n xlab expression paste italic landArea square km mgp c 2 0 5 0 axis 1 log10 1 9 rep 10 3 7 each 9 rep 45 axis 1 log10 10 3 6 expression 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 cex axis 0 8 mgp c 2 0 5 0 abline v log10 seq 0 2e6 100000 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 |