[R] X-axis range

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Tue Sep 15 15:24:36 CEST 2009


I suspect that your explanation is true, but the ambiguity of what  
format you might be using is the reason that the Posting Guide asks  
that posters offer a reproducible example.

-- 
David

On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Chris Li wrote:

>
> Thanks Peter.
>
> I have tried your approach, and it does not work. I guess it is  
> because the
> format of the x-axis (and its associated data) has the format of  
> date while
> numbers like 1998, 2003 etc. are treated as numeric (i.e. not the date
> format).
>
> Thank you for your time anyway. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
> Peter Alspach-2 wrote:
>>
>> Tena koe Chris
>>
>> ?axis
>>
>> e.g.,
>> plot(yourX, yourY, xlim=c(1998,2008), xaxt='n')
>> axis(1, c(1998,2003,2008))
>>
>> HTH ....
>>
>> Peter Alspach
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 3:22 p.m.
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>>> Subject: [R] X-axis range
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to change the x-axis of my graphs from year 1998
>>> to 2008 with an interval of 5 (i.e. 1998, 2003, 2008). Any
>>> help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p25447219/model_hydrographs.txt
>>> model_hydrographs.txt
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p25447219/bore_sample.txt
>>> bore_sample.txt
>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p25447219/46871a%2Bcalibration%2Bscript.R
>>> 46871a+calibration+script.R
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
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Heritage Laboratories
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