Base R Graph Parameters Cheat Sheet

This post aims to remind the options offered to customize a graph in base R. Understand in a sec how to use lwd, type, lty, cex, pch, and more.

Base R offers many option to customize the chart appearance. Basically everything is doable with those few options:

  • lwd → line width
  • type → link between dots
  • lty → line type
  • cex → shape size
  • col → control colors
  • pch → marker shape




Contact

This document is a work of the statistics team in the Biostatistics and Medical Information Department at Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris (SBIM).
Developed and updated by Noémie Bigot and Anouk Walter-Petrich
noemie.bigot@aphp.fr; anouk.walter-petrich@u-paris.fr

Based on The R Graph Gallery by Yan Holtz.

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