[R] Y Axis Labels

Thomas Levine thomas.levine at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 18:44:33 CEST 2010


More specifically

time=rnorm(20)+10
scale=rep(0:4,4)
plot(time~scale,axes=F)
axis(1,at=0:4,labels=c("Never", "Once per month", "A few times per
month", "A few times per week","Everyday"))
axis(2)

Tom

2010/10/27 Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>:
> You can use axis() to draw custom axes of many sorts.
> The examples under ?axis demonstrate how to not draw the default
> axes and how to make custom ones.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Downey, Patrick <PDowney at urban.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have am plotting a 0-4 ordinal scale (y-axis) against time (x-axis). Is
>> there a way to label the values on the y-axis with the translation from the
>> scale? That is, instead of having 0,1,2,3,4 on the y-axis, I would like
>> "Never", "Once per month", "A few times per month", "A few times per week",
>> "Everyday."
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mitch
>>
>
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