Use the xlim option in the plot function? Bernard Sent from my iPhone so please excuse the spelling!"
> On Jul 9, 2020, at 10:06 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, > but why it does not work in linear? With the log scale, I know it > works but I am not looking for it; is there a way to force a linear > scale? > Regards > Luigi > >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: >> >> Dear Luigi, >> >>>> On Jul 9, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I have these vectors: >>> ``` >>> X <- 1:7 >>> Y <- c(1438443863, 3910100650, 10628760108, 28891979048, 78536576706, >>> 213484643920, 580311678200) >>> plot(Y~X) >>> ``` >>> The y-axis starts at 0e0, but the first value is 1.4 billion. Why the >>> axis does not start at 1e9? >> >> Because you're plotting on a linear, not log, scale, and 0*10^11 = 0. >> >>> round(Y/1e11) >> [1] 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 >> >> Then try plot(log(Y) ~ X). >> >> I hope this helps, >> John >> >> ----------------------------- >> John Fox, Professor Emeritus >> McMaster University >> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada >> Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Luigi >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Luigi > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
