The “pairs.panels” Function in R

• Package: psych

• Purpose: Creates scatterplot matrices with enhanced features.

• General class: Data visualization

• Required argument(s):

• x: The data frame containing the variables to be plotted.

• Notable optional arguments:

• method: The type of correlation coefficient to be displayed.

• hist.col: Color of the histograms in the diagonal panels.

• density: Logical; if true, add density plots on the diagonal panels.

• Example:

• # Load the psych library
  library(psych)
  
  # Create scatterplot matrix with enhanced features
  pairs.panels(iris[,1:4],
  method = "spearman",
  hist.col = "blue",
  )

• This example demonstrates how to use the pairs.panels function from the psych package to create a scatterplot matrix with enhanced features. The function requires the x argument, which is the data frame containing the variables to be plotted. Optional arguments like method, hist.col, and density allow customization of the output scatterplot matrix.