Extended regression lines with seaborn regplot

Question

I searched but I did not find the answer regrading the seaborn library. I also checked the documentation for lmplot() and regplot(), but did not find either. Is it possible to extend and control the length of regression lines? By default seaborn fits the length of regression line according to the length of x axis. Another option is to use argument truncate=True - that would limit the regression line only to the extent of data. Other options?

In my example I want the lower regression line to be extended down till x=0. And the upper line extended till the intersection with the lower one.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns

file = 'cobbles.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(file, sep=',')

sns.regplot(x='downward_temp', y='downward_heat', data=df, ci=None)
sns.regplot(x='upward_temp', y='upward_heat', data=df, ci=None, order=2)


plt.xlim([0,25])
plt.ylim([0,100])
plt.show()

Answer 1

If you know your x limits prior to plotting, you can set_xlim for the axis before calling regplot and seaborn will then extend the regression line and the CI over the range of xlim.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns

file = 'cobbles.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(file, sep=',')

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

xlim = [0,25]
ax.set_xlim(xlim)

sns.regplot(x='downward_temp', y='downward_heat', data=df, ci=None, ax=ax)
sns.regplot(x='upward_temp', y='upward_heat', data=df, ci=None, order=2, ax=ax)

ax.set_ylim([0,100])
plt.show()

Answer 2

Short answer: You just have to add plt.xlim(start,end) before your Seaborn plots.

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I guess it might make more sense for Seaborn to automatically determine the length from the plot limits.

The same issue brought me here, and @Serenity's answer inspired me that something like xlims = ax.get_xlim() might help.

May try fixing and commit a change to Seaborn afterwards.