On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/09/2013 11:52 AM, C W wrote: >> Dear R community, >> I am having trouble changing the tick marks on y-axis to every 5 units? I >> have the following: >> >> x <- c(12, 16, 6, 23, 27, 8, 5, 19, 23, 13, 16, 8) >> >> y <- c(29, 29, 23, 34, 38, 24, 22, 34, 36, 27, 33, 27) >> >> plot(x, y, pch=19) >> >> Should I change ylim=c(0,40), and then use axis()? > > Don't use ylim, use yaxt="n", then use axis(). >> >> I kept on thinking I can do everything inside plot(), but there is actually >> axis(), par(), ..., and so on. >> Could someone tell me why is there so many functions outside plot(). I'm >> sure there is a reason, but I don't seem to understand why. > > R is designed to be flexible. If you create giant functions that can do > everything, you end up with a design like SAS, which is extremely inflexible. > It's good at what it can do, but it's very hard to get it to do something > the designers didn't think of. > > Duncan Murdoch Fortune candidate, with cc: to Z. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.
