How to plot all the columns of a data frame in R

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The ggplot2 package takes a little bit of learning, but the results look really nice, you get nice legends, plus many other nice features, all without having to write much code.

require(ggplot2)
require(reshape2)
df <- data.frame(time = 1:10,
                 a = cumsum(rnorm(10)),
                 b = cumsum(rnorm(10)),
                 c = cumsum(rnorm(10)))
df <- melt(df ,  id.vars="time", variable.name="series")

# plot on same grid, each series colored differently -- 
# good if the series have same scale
ggplot(df, aes(time,value)) + geom_line(aes(colour = series))

# or plot on different plots
ggplot(df, aes(time,value)) + geom_line() + facet_grid(series ~ .)

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