[R] discontinuous y-axis (ordinate with a -/ /-)

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

axis.break() in the plotrix package will do that.  You still have to modify 
the axis scale.

Cheers

Francisco



>From: jobst landgrebe <jlandgr1 at gwdg.de>
>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] discontinuous y-axis (ordinate with a -/ /-)
>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:40:01 +0100
>
>Dear List,
>
>can anyone tell me how to plot a discontinuous y-axis (ordinate
>with a -/ /- "break sign") to fit in data with a wide range without the
>need of logarthimic transformation? My data are distributed like this:
>
>(abscissa: 1:10)
>
>1. vector to plot
>
>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>   4.030   5.987   6.865  19.520  16.200  88.000
>
>2. vector to plot
>
>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
>   0.000   2.112   2.620   2.976   4.303   7.030
>
>I have just this one 88 outlier and cannot log-transform the data
>(reviewers want plain data).
>
>I would be glad to get help.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Jobst Landgrebe
>
>--
>Dr. Jobst Landgrebe
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>Abt. Biochemie 2
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