Question

In R, if I have a plot of LIFE against BIRTH and I want to specifically mark the data point corresponding to STATE "AK" in the graph as red colour(the rest of the points as black color), what R command should we use?(Please don't look through the data to find AK's birth value(24.8)or life value (69.31)and mark this point manually referring to this value as other state can have the same birth and life value)

"STATE" "MALE" "BIRTH" "DIVO" "BEDS" "EDUC" "INCO" "LIFE"
AK 119.1 24.8 5.6 603.3 14.1 4638 69.31
AL 93.3 19.4 4.4 840.9 7.8 2892 69.05
AR 94.1 18.5 4.8 569.6 6.7 2791 70.66
AZ 96.8 21.2 7.2 536.0 12.6 3614 70.55
CA 96.8 18.2 5.7 649.5 13.4 4423 71.71
CO 97.5 18.8 4.7 717.7 14.9 3838 72.06
CT 94.2 16.7 1.9 791.6 13.7 4871 72.48
DC 86.8 20.1 3.0 1859.4 17.8 4644 65.71
DE 95.2 19.2 3.2 926.8 13.1 4468 70.06
FL 93.2 16.9 5.5 668.2 10.3 3698 70.66
GA 94.6 21.1 4.1 705.4 9.2 3300 68.54
HW 108.1 21.3 3.4 794.3 14.0 4599 73.60
IA 94.6 17.1 2.5 773.9 9.1 3643 72.56
ID 99.7 20.3 5.1 541.5 10.0 3243 71.87
IL 94.2 18.5 3.3 871.0 10.3 4446 70.14
IN 95.1 19.1 2.9 736.1 8.3 3709 70.88
KS 96.2 17.0 3.9 854.6 11.4 3725 72.58
KY 96.3 18.7 3.3 661.9 7.2 3076 70.10
LA 94.7 20.4 1.4 724.0 9.0 3023 68.76
MA 91.6 16.6 1.9 1103.8 12.6 4276 71.83
MD 95.5 17.5 2.4 841.3 13.9 4267 70.22
ME 94.8 17.9 3.9 919.5 8.4 3250 70.93
MI 96.1 19.4 3.4 754.7 9.4 4041 70.63
MN 96.0 18.0 2.2 905.4 11.1 3819 72.96
MO 93.2 17.3 3.8 801.6 9.0 3654 70.69
MS 94.0 22.1 3.7 763.1 8.1 2547 68.09
MT 99.9 18.2 4.4 668.7 11.0 3395 70.56
NC 95.9 19.3 2.7 658.8 8.5 3200 69.21
ND 101.8 17.6 1.6 959.9 8.4 3077 72.79
NE 95.4 17.3 2.5 866.1 9.6 3657 72.60
NH 95.7 17.9 3.3 878.2 10.9 3720 71.23
NJ 93.7 16.8 1.5 713.1 11.8 4684 70.93
NM 97.2 21.7 4.3 560.9 12.7 3045 70.32
NV 102.8 19.6 18.7 560.7 10.8 4583 69.03
NY 91.5 17.4 1.4 1056.2 11.9 4605 70.55
OH 94.1 18.7 3.7 751.0 9.3 3949 70.82
OK 94.9 17.5 6.6 664.6 10.0 3341 71.42
OR 95.9 16.8 4.6 607.1 11.8 3677 72.13
PA 92.4 16.3 1.9 948.9 8.7 3879 70.43
RI 96.2 16.5 1.8 960.5 9.4 3878 71.90
SC 96.5 20.1 2.2 739.9 9.0 2951 67.96
SD 98.4 17.6 2.0 984.7 8.6 3108 72.08
TN 93.7 18.4 4.2 831.6 7.9 3079 70.11
TX 95.9 20.6 4.6 674.0 10.9 3507 70.90
UT 97.6 25.5 3.7 470.5 14.0 3169 72.90
VA 97.7 18.6 2.6 835.8 12.3 3677 70.08
VT 95.6 18.8 2.3 1026.1 11.5 3447 71.64
WA 98.7 17.8 5.2 556.4 12.7 3997 71.72
WI 96.3 17.6 2.0 814.7 9.8 3712 72.48
WV 93.9 17.8 3.2 950.4 6.8 3038 69.48
WY 100.7 19.6 5.4 925.9 11.8 3672 70.29

Answer 1

The following R code is used to plot and color highlight the desired point.

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d = read.table("tt.txt", header = T,sep = " ")         ## d is the dataframe containing the desired data
print(d)

plot(x=d$BIRTH,y=d$LIFE,
     xlab="BIRTH",ylab="LIFE",
     col = ifelse(d$LIFE==d[which(d$STATE=="AK"),8],'red','black'),
     pch = 19)

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