[R] changing coordinates?

[Ott Toomet]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Richard Mueller wrote:

  |I just detected R and have, after browsing the manual, one question:
  |I look for quite a lot of time for graphical software which allows to 
  |plot data from a table or external file _with the axes of the coordinate 
  |system changed_, i.e. the x-axis should run from top left to bottom 
  |left, and the y-axis from top-left to top-right. It is of no use to 
  |interchange the rows in the table, the coordinate system should rely of 
  |that definition. This type of plot is used in limnological and 
  |oceanological graphs. Until now I could find no software which can do 
  |that job. Perhaps one of you can answer this beginner's question with a 
  |simple yes or no?
  |Thank you, Richard

Short answer is yes, you can do it.

There is no pre-programmed plot command in order to do that, however.  You
have to transform you data a bit, e.g. changing the sign.  Suppose you have
data

> x <- c(1,2,3,-1)
> y <- 1:4

In that case you can do something like

> plot(y, -x, yaxt="n", xaxt="n")
> axis(2, at=pretty(-x), labels=as.character(-pretty(-x)))
> axis(3)

Perhaps you get an idea.

Ott

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