[R] Alignment of axes intersection

David Afshartous dafshartous at med.miami.edu
Tue May 20 18:36:48 CEST 2008


Agreed.  The main reason I wanted the change in alignment was that I had
three curves that were converging to a asymptote, and when I drew the
horizontal asymptote via abline(), it distorted the picture somewhat since
the line from abline() goes all the way to the y-axis.




On 5/20/08 12:21 PM, "Greg Snow" <Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote:

> Mathematicians like to have axes cross at 0, the general rule for statistics
> is to have the axes positioned so that they help you understand the data, but
> don't interfere with the actual points (or force too much whitespace by being
> put to far away from the data), so the default positioning follows that idea.
> If you really want the axes to cross at 0 you can do:
> 
>> plot(0:10, 0:10, axes=FALSE)
>> axis(1, pos=0)
>> axis(2, pos=0)
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
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> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of David Afshartous
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:50 AM
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>> Subject: [R] Alignment of axes intersection
>> 
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> Very basic question I can't seem to find the answer to:
>> 
>> plot(0:10, 0:10)
>> 
>> The axes intersection is not aligned at (0,0) in the lower left.
>> How does one force this?
>> 
>> I searched for graphical parameters under par(graphics) but
>> can't seem to find it.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> David
>> 
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