Not sure exactly what you want, but does using 'ylim' do what you want: plot(1:5, sample(100:200,5), type='b', ylim=c(0,450))
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:08 PM, chipmaney <chipma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I have read all the help on axis scales, which seems to be much harder to > deal with than it should be, given how common the need to alter axes. > Anyway....yeah, suppress the axis using yaxt then call and define the new > scale using axis(). > > The problem is, this doesn't change the actual axis, only the text. > Example: > > plot(1:length(TreeDensity.df$Description[which(TreeDensity.df$Description == > Zone.df[i])]),TreeDensity.df$CumMeanTree[which(TreeDensity.df$Description == > Zone.df[i])], > type = "b", sub=Zone.df[i],xlab="Sample Size",ylab = "Tree > Density", > yaxt="n") > > axis(side = 2, xpd=FALSE, at = pretty(range(0,450)) ) > > This code produces the following plot: > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p25665902/Presentation1.jpg > > > Note that while the scale of the axis TEXT has changed, the actual axis > scale hasn't, it still ranges across the value of the data....That is, the > ranges 0...~100 and ~200....450 do not appear on the plot. > > One could say that the axis scale has changed, but part of the axis isn't > showing up, so one could use xpd to suppress clipping....However, then the > axis either runs off the device window or something, like the following > plot: > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p25665902/Presentation2.jpg > > So, what I really want to do is not the change both the range (to 0...450) > AND scale (ie, shrink the length of the range(0,450) to fit the existing > plot dimensions) of the axis. Any suggestion on how to accomplish this? > > Thanks in advance... > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/axis-scale-issues....-tp25665902p25665902.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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
