Plot in R language - r

I have instruction for R console:
plot(1:1000, some_function(1000,1/2,500, type='l')
Can someone explain to me what 1:1000 means? I tried to put some other input instead of 1:1000, for example 1:100 but then it won't work.
I understand that 1:1000 means it will iterate from 1 to 1000, but what does that mean as a plot argument?
Thanks in advance.

It means a vector with the elements from 1 to 1000; therefore, a 1000-element vector.
For the plot function, the first argument corresponds to the x coordinates of the points to be added. Hence, 1:1000 means that the data points will have x coordinates 1, 2, ..., 1000

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