[R] Different y-axes

Helmut Schütz helmut.schuetz at chello.at
Tue Jun 18 23:50:34 CEST 2002


Prof Brian D Ripley schrieb:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Helmut [iso-8859-1] Schütz wrote:
>
> > What's wrong?
>
> You tell us: we don't know what you are seeing ....
>
> > I tried today's examples and just got only both labels printed one over
> > the other.
> >
> > 1. Brian Ripley
> > x <- 1:10
> > y <- rnorm(10)
> > z <- runif(10, 1000, 10000)
> > par(mar=c(5,4,4,4) + 0.1)  # Leave space for z axis
> > plot(x, y)
> > par(new=T)
> > plot(x, z, type="l", axes=F, bty="n", xlab="", ylab="")
> > axis(4, at=pretty(range(z)))
> > mtext(z, 4, 3)
>         ^
> mtext("z", 4, 3) was a copying error from me, but all the rest works.
>

by now it works, thanks a lot!

> > 2. Don MacQueen
> > x <- 1:5
> > y1 <- 1:5
> > y2 <- 25:21
> > plot(x,y1)
> > par(new=T)
> > plot(x,y2,yaxt='n',col='blue')
> > axis(4,y2)
>
> That does plot the box, x axis and x label twice, which matters on some
> devices, e.g. a plotter.

true, but it was given as an example of "double" y-labels; maybe I just
misunderstood the intention.

> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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