Hi, I have overlayed 2 projected shapefiles using the "plot" function.
When I plot them the numbers next to the x-axis ticks are printed in scientific format (e.g. -4e+05, -3e+05,...,), and the problem is these dont match up to the projected point locations I also wish to overlay from my dataset. For example, according to the x-axis ticks the prime meridian (0°) is in totally the wrong position. I have tried "degAxis" which only changes the axis to 4e+05°W, 3e+05°W,..., and I cant seem to get map.grid to work. Does anyone know why this would happen or what I have done wrong? #Code is shelfline <- readOGR(dsn="C:\\ArcGIS\\phy_bathy_contours.shp", layer = "phy_bathy_contours") world <- readOGR(dsn="C:\\ArcGIS\\phy_coastline_plus_ssi_so.shp", layer = "phy_coastline_plus_ssi_so") plot(shelfline, axes=T,xlab=expression("Longitude"^o), ylab=expression("Latitude"^o), yaxt="n", xaxt="n") plot(world, col="lightslategray", add=T) #attempts to alter axes degAxis(1) map.grid(col="black", labels=TRUE, pretty=TRUE, lty=2) Many thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/map-axis-on-projected-shapefiles-tp4639554.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.