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How to plot multple lines in R

I have a data frame with 4 columns, all floating-point numbers. I would like to make a piecewise-line plot. Each curve will have 4 points, 1 curve per row of the dataframe. The x-values should be the values of the dataframe, the y-values the column indices.

In Python I would have done something like this

plt.figure()
for i in range(data.shape[0]):
    plt.plot(data[i], [0,1,2,3], '*-')
plt.show()

I have spent an hour reading forums and trying out different arguments for matplot and ggplot but to no avail.

Here is the result of my python plot

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I don't mind using other libraries like ggplot2 or other.

Edit: I forgot to specify an important additional requirement. All of the curves have to be sorted in the order of their column index. For example, consider the following plot

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Here, the 3rd curve is not plotted correctly with respect to this additional requirement. Its y-indices go in the order [0, 2, 1, 3], whereas it should be [0, 1, 2, 3]. It is the X-axis that I would like to not be sorted.

Solution

  • Obviously, in Base R this is just the same as in Python.

    clr <- hcl.colors(ncol(m))  ## define colors
plot.new(); plot.window(xlim=range(m), ylim=c(0, 3))  ## define plot area
for (i in seq_len(ncol(m))) lines(m[, i], 0:3, type='o', pch=20, col=clr[i])  ## loop
axis(1); axis(2); box()  ## axes and box

    enter image description here

    Data:

    set.seed(42)
m <- sapply(0:10, \(i) c(-.5, .5, 1.5, 2.5) + i + rnorm(4, 0, .1))