[R] plot (log scale on y-axis)

Jing Shen jshen6 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 16:23:21 CEST 2005


Thanks to all of you! Yes, I want to get the axis labels to be powers
of 10. I am going to try the code you recommended. Thanks a lot,
Jing

On 6/30/05, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/29/05, Jing Shen <jshen6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am planning to plot my data on log scale (y-axis). There is a
> > parameter in plot function, which is
> > plot( ..., log="y", ...)
> > While, the problem is that it is with base of e. Is there a way to let
> > me change it to 10 instead of e?
> >
> 
> Is your question how to get the axis labels to be powers of 10?
> In that case,
> 
> plot(1:100, log = "y", yaxt = "n")  # do not show y axis
> axis(2, c(1,10,100))  # draw y axis with required labels
>




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