[R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

[stephen sefick]

the xaxt="n" needs to be inside of the plot command otherwise you can
never plot the x axis- I think.

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:51 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> j = c(5,6)
> f = c(1,2)
> plot(f,j, xaxt="n")
> axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2"))
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Jörg Groß <joerg at licht-malerei.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.08.2008 um 17:46 schrieb stephen sefick:
>>
>>> Would you provide reproducible code because form your example it looks
>>> like you are trying to label a scatterplot with just two lables - this
>>> is your boxplot from yesterday?  If so look into the ?boxplot and it
>>> will tell you some answers
>>
>> No, what I want is to plot the mean for two different groups.
>> So that I get group 1 and 2 on the x-axis and also label it like that.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Jörg Groß <joerg at licht-malerei.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I want to customize the x-axis.
>>>>
>>>> I tried that:
>>>> par(bty="n", xaxt="n")
>>>> so that the x-axis is supressed.
>>>>
>>>> then I tried to plot two variables and add a customized x-axis:
>>>> plot(x, y)
>>>> axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2"))
>>>>
>>>> but the axis is not added to the plot.
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand why..
>>>> And how then can I customize the axis?
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-- 
Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

	-K. Mullis