[R] Second axis in a plot

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Juan Cuervo <juan_l_cuervo at yahoo.es> writes:

> Hi to all,
> First of all, I prefer to tell that I am a R-newbie,
> so I apologize if this is a silly question (I have
> tried looking in the manuals, but without luck).
> I have two variables, y and z, that I want to plot
> against x in the same plot. I have done this before,
> using points() after plot(). But now the problem is
> that y and z are in different units of measurement,
> and their ranges are very different.
> I have tried drawing a second axis with axis(), but I
> found the same problem: the new axis is drawn in the
> same range than the first variable plotted in the
> y-axis.
> I would greatly appreciate some suggestions.
> Regards,
> Juan L. Cuervo

The trick is to rescale z into y coordinates, and then axis(3, at=...,
labels=...) where "at" is in y coordinates, but the labels are given
as z coordinates.

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