Hi Dot, Jeff's guess is probably correct, but perhaps you could describe the crazy tick marks and the repeating labels a little more. I suspect that if "newdate" was a character variable you wouldn't get a plot at all, and if it is a factor, a few of the labels might identify what went wrong.
Jim > On April 14, 2015 5:04:48 PM PDT, Dot Lundberg <dotlundb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>New to R. Having trouble with the xaxis in this code. The tick marks >>are >>crazy and the labels repeat. Any suggestions? >> >>par(mar=c(5,5,5,5)) >> >>plot(LPB_PPT_R$newdate,LPB_PPT_R$Rain_cm,pch=0,type="l",col="black",yaxt="n",ylim=c(0,8),ylab="") >>axis(side=2, at=c(0,2,4,6,8)) >>mtext("Precipitation (cm)", side = 2, line=2.5, at=4) >>mtext("Date", side=1, line=2.5) >>axis.Date(1, at=seq(min(LPB_PPT_R$newdate), >>max(LPB_PPT_R$newdate),las=2,by="1 weeks"),format="%m-%Y") >> >>par(new=TRUE) >> >>plot(LPB_PPT_R$newdate,LPB_PPT_R$Cum_PPT,pch=1,type="l",col="grey",yaxt="n",ylim=c(0,100), >>ylab="") >>axis(side=4, at=c(0,50,100)) >>mtext("Cumulative Precipitation (cm)", side=4, line=2.5, at=50, >>col="grey") >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.