To add to what David suggests, and since you're new to R, something like this:
plot(x,y, yaxt='n') yticks <- pretty(y) axis(2, at=yticks, labels=sprintf("%1.2f",yticks)) See the help page for par ?par and look for the entry for 'xaxt' to see what the 'yaxt' arg to plot does. -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 11/16/11 6:35 AM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > >On Nov 16, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Mario Giesel wrote: > >> Hello, list, >> >> I'm new to R and I'm trying to produce a chart with currency values >> on the y axis. >> Values should be e.g. 1,00, 1,50, 2,00, etc. >> In fact they are 1,0, 1,5, 2,0, etc. >> How do I get R to show two digits after the comma on that axis? > >?sprintf >?format > >On the left (geographic) side of the Atlantic, it might be: > > > sprintf("%1.2f", 1) >[1] "1.00" > >I assume that your system is set up with different options() and that >your punkts are going to be handle to your liking by sprintf. > >-- > >David Winsemius, MD >West Hartford, CT > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.