[R] changing axis labels

John Kane jrkrideau at inbox.com
Wed Jun 6 14:31:53 CEST 2012


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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: alaios at yahoo.com
> Sent: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:40:53 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: [R] changing axis labels
> 
> Dear all,
> I am making a function for creating plots and part of this function is to
> change the labels to x axis that instead of number contains percentage
> number. I want to change the x axis to depict the percentage value of the
> presented data
> 
> 
> x<-c(501:600)
> y<-c(201:300)
> plot(x,y,axes=F)
> axis(2,labels=T)
> 
> text=round(seq(0,100,length.out=5),2) # make percentage bar
> at=round(seq(min(x),max(x),length.out=5),2)
> axis(1,at=at,labels=F)
> mtext(text=text,side=1,line=1,at=at)
> 
> 
> 
> as you will see this is different from plot(x,y)
> 1. the x and y axis do not meet at their beginning , there is this small
> gap
> 2. there is no box border plotted compared to plot(x,y)
> 
> what I need to change to my code to make this happen?
> 
> Regards
> Alex
> 
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