DescriptionR-US state areas-1D.svg	English: 1D horizontal scatter plot (aka "dot plot" or "strip plot") example with continuous data, outliers identified by name. Data = US state areas
Date	6 March 2009
Source	Own work
Author	HYanWong
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svg(file = "R-US_state_areas-1D.svg", width = 5, height = 1.5, pointsize = 8)
#1D horizontal scatter plot (aka "dot plot" or "strip plot") example with continuous data, outliers identified by name. Data = US state areas
par(mar=c(4,1,3,1)+0.1)
X <- state.area*2.58998811/1000
stripchart(X, pch=1,
xlab=expression(paste(italic("landArea")," (thousands of square km)")), xaxt="n")
axis(1,seq(0, 2e3, 100), cex.axis=0.8, las=2)
abline(v=seq(0, 2e3, 100), lty="dotted", col="lightgray")
title("Size of US states")

###Label outliers
outliers <- order(match(X, sort(boxplot.stats(X)$out)), na.last=NA)
odd <- c(TRUE, FALSE)
text(X[outliers[!odd]], 1, labels=state.name[outliers[!odd]], adj=-0.2, cex=0.65, srt=45, xpd=NA, col="grey40")
text(X[outliers[odd]], 1, labels=state.name[outliers[odd]], adj=1.2, cex=0.65, srt=45, xpd=NA, col="grey40")
dev.off()