Draw a Quantile-Quantile Plot in R Programming – qqline() Function

The Quantile-Quantile Plot in Programming Language, or (Q-Q Plot) is defined as a value of two variables that are plotted corresponding to each other and check whether the distributions of two variables are similar or not with respect to the locations. qqline() function in R Language is used to draw a Q-Q Line Plot.

R – Quantile-Quantile Plot

Syntax: qqline(x, y, col)
Parameters:
x, y: X and Y coordinates of plot
col: It defines color
Returns: A QQ Line plot of the coordinates provided

Quantile-Quantile Plot in R Example

Example 1: Implementation of Basic QQplot Interpretation using qqline() Function in R

R

# Set seed for reproducibility
set.seed(500)
 
# Create random normally distributed values
x <- rnorm(1200)
 
# QQplot of normally distributed values
qqnorm(x)
 
# Add qqline to plot
qqline(x, col = "darkgreen")

Output:

Above is a representation of QQplot of Normally Distributed Random Numbers.

Example 2: Implementation of QQplot of Logistically Distributed Values

R

# Set seed for reproducibility
 
# Random values according to logistic distribution
# QQplot of logistic distribution
y <- rlogis(800)
 
# QQplot of normally distributed values
qqnorm(y)
 
# Add qqline to plot
qqline(y, col = "darkgreen")