Dear Shige, You can use scale_y_continuous() to achieve this.
year.plot <- ggplot(d, aes(year, rate)) year.plot + stat_summary(fun.y = "mean", geom = "line") + scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, .1)) where limits may be whatever you like for the y axis. Cheers, Josh On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Shige Song <shiges...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am trying to graph a simple scatter plot where the x axis is year > and the y axis is a percentage (percentage of infant death). Instead > of plotting the raw data, I want to plot summary statistics such as > mean and median. Here is the problem: the value range of y is between > 0 and 1, but since infant death is a rare event, the mean and median > is very low (something like 5%), which shows up as a horizontal line > at the bottom of the figure. My question is: how do I change the scale > of the y-axis so that it does not have the range between 0 and 1 but > between 0 and 0.1? Many thanks. > > By the way, I am using ggplot2, and here is my code: > > ------------------------------- > year.plot <- ggplot(d, aes(year, rate)) > year.plot + stat_summary(fun.y = "mean", geom = "line") > ------------------------------- > > Best, > Shige > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
