\Header{stripchart}{1-D Scatter Plots}
\keyword{hplot}{stripchart}
\begin{Description}\relax
\code{stripchart} produces one dimensional scatter plots (or dot
plots) of the given data.  These plots are are good alternative to 
\code{\Link{boxplot}}s when sample sizes are small.\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}
stripchart(x, method="overplot", jitter=0.1, offset=1/3,
           vertical=FALSE, group.names,
           xlim=NULL, ylim=NULL, main="", ylab="", xlab="",
           pch=0, col=par("fg"), cex=par("cex"))
\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{x}] the data from which the plots are to be produced.  The data
can be specified as a single vector, or as list of vectors, each
corresponding to a component plot.  Alternatively a symbolic
specification of the form \code{x \textasciitilde{} g} can be given, indicating the
the observations in the vector \code{x} are to be grouped according
to the levels of the factor \code{g}.
\code{NA}s are allowed in the data.
\item[\code{method}] the method to be used to separate coincident points.
The default method \code{"overplot"} causes such points to be
overplotted, but it is also possible to specify \code{"jitter"} to
jitter the points, or \code{"stack"} have coincident points
stacked.  The last method only makes sense for very granular data.
\item[\code{jitter}] when jittering is used, \code{jitter} gives the amount
of jittering applied.
\item[\code{offset}] when stacking is used, points are stacked this many
line-heights (symbol widths) apart.
\item[\code{vertical}] when vertical is \code{TRUE} the plots are drawn
vertically rather than the default horizontal.
\item[\code{group.names}] group labels which will be printed alongside
(or underneath) each plot.
\item[\code{xlim, ylim, main, ylab, xlab, pch, col, cex}] Graphical parameters.
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Details}\relax
Extensive examples of the use of this kind of plot can be found in
Box, Hunter and Hunter or Seber and Wild.\end{Details}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
x <- round(rnorm(50), 1)
stripchart(x)
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

