\HeaderA{pairs}{Scatterplot Matrices}{pairs}
\methaliasA{pairs.default}{pairs}{pairs.default}
\methaliasA{pairs.formula}{pairs}{pairs.formula}
\keyword{hplot}{pairs}
\begin{Description}\relax
A matrix of scatterplots is produced.
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
pairs(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'formula':
pairs(formula, data = NULL, ..., subset, na.action = na.pass)

## Default S3 method:
pairs(x, labels, panel = points, ...,
      lower.panel = panel, upper.panel = panel,
      diag.panel = NULL, text.panel = textPanel,
      label.pos = 0.5 + has.diag/3,
      cex.labels = NULL, font.labels = 1,
      row1attop = TRUE, gap = 1)
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{x}] the coordinates of points given as columns of a numeric
matrix.  Other objects such as data frames will if possible be
converted by \code{\LinkA{data.matrix}{data.matrix}}.

\item[\code{formula}] a formula, such as \code{\textasciitilde{} x + y + z}.  Each term will
give a separate variable in the pairs plot, so terms should be
numeric vectors.  (A response will be interpreted as another
variable, but not treated specially, so it is confusing to use one.)
\item[\code{data}] a data.frame (or list) from which the variables in
\code{formula} should be taken.
\item[\code{subset}] an optional vector specifying a subset of observations
to be used for plotting.
\item[\code{na.action}] a function which indicates what should happen
when the data contain \code{NA}s.  The default is to pass missing
values on to the panel functions, but \code{na.action = na.omit}
will cause cases with missing values in any of the variables to be
omitted entirely.
\item[\code{labels}] the names of the variables.
\item[\code{panel}] \code{function(x,y,...)} which is used to plot
the contents of each panel of the display.
\item[\code{...}] graphical parameters can be given as arguments to
\code{plot}.
\item[\code{lower.panel, upper.panel}] separate panel functions to be used
below and above the diagonal respectively.
\item[\code{diag.panel}] optional \code{function(x, ...)} to be
applied on the diagonals.
\item[\code{text.panel}] optional \code{function(x, y, labels, cex,
      font, ...)} to be applied on the diagonals.
\item[\code{label.pos}] \code{y} position of labels in the text panel.
\item[\code{cex.labels, font.labels}] graphics parameters for the text panel.
\item[\code{row1attop}] logical. Should the layout be matrix-like with row 1
at the top, or graph-like with row 1 at the bottom?
\item[\code{gap}] Distance between subplots, in margin lines.
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Details}\relax
The \eqn{ij}{}th scatterplot contains \code{x[,i]} plotted against
\code{x[,j]}.  The \dQuote{scatterplot} can be customised by setting panel
functions to appear as something completely different. The
off-diagonal panel functions are passed the appropriate columns of
\code{x} as \code{x} and \code{y}: the diagonal panel function (if
any) is passed a single column, and the \code{text.panel} function is
passed a single \code{(x, y)} location and the column name.

The graphical parameters \code{pch} and \code{col} can be used to
specify a vector of plotting symbols and colors to be used in the
plots.

The graphical parameter \code{oma} will be set by \code{pairs.default}
unless supplied as an argument.

A panel function should not attempt to start a new plot, but just plot
within a given coordinate system: thus \code{plot} and \code{boxplot}
are not panel functions.

By default, missing values are passed to the panel functions and will
often be ignored within a panel.  However, for the formula method and
\code{na.action = na.omit}, all cases which contain a missing values for
any of the variables are omitted completely (including when the scales
are selected).  (The latter was the default behaviour prior to \R{} 2.0.0.)
\end{Details}
\begin{Author}\relax
Enhancements for \R{} 1.0.0 contributed by Dr. Jens
Oehlschlaegel-Akiyoshi and R-core members.
\end{Author}
\begin{References}\relax
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988)
\emph{The New S Language}.
Wadsworth \& Brooks/Cole.
\end{References}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
pairs(iris[1:4], main = "Anderson's Iris Data -- 3 species",
      pch = 21, bg = c("red", "green3", "blue")[unclass(iris$Species)])

## formula method
pairs(~ Fertility + Education + Catholic, data = swiss,
      subset = Education < 20, main = "Swiss data, Education < 20")

pairs(USJudgeRatings)

## put histograms on the diagonal
panel.hist <- function(x, ...)
{
    usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
    par(usr = c(usr[1:2], 0, 1.5) )
    h <- hist(x, plot = FALSE)
    breaks <- h$breaks; nB <- length(breaks)
    y <- h$counts; y <- y/max(y)
    rect(breaks[-nB], 0, breaks[-1], y, col="cyan", ...)
}
pairs(USJudgeRatings[1:5], panel=panel.smooth,
      cex = 1.5, pch = 24, bg="light blue",
      diag.panel=panel.hist, cex.labels = 2, font.labels=2)

## put (absolute) correlations on the upper panels,
## with size proportional to the correlations.
panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits=2, prefix="", cex.cor)
{
    usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
    par(usr = c(0, 1, 0, 1))
    r <- abs(cor(x, y))
    txt <- format(c(r, 0.123456789), digits=digits)[1]
    txt <- paste(prefix, txt, sep="")
    if(missing(cex.cor)) cex <- 0.8/strwidth(txt)
    text(0.5, 0.5, txt, cex = cex * r)
}
pairs(USJudgeRatings, lower.panel=panel.smooth, upper.panel=panel.cor)
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

