R and MATLAB

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Graphics

 

Both R and MATLAB include facilities for producing a wide variety of high-quality graphics. Both platforms have fairly straightforward and similar ways of producing simple scatterplots of 2-D data, with a large set of additional routines to modify those plots or produce other types of graphical output.

R has two fundamentally different ways of producing graphics (what are called graphics systems): the traditional graphics system and the grid graphics system. The two systems do not interact very well, so it is best to try and work with just one system at a time. The grid graphics system is in some ways more powerful and convenient than the traditional graphics system, depending on what you are doing. Some things, such as figure ...