[R] Axes value format

Vihan Pandey vihanpandey at gmail.com
Thu May 10 13:41:59 CEST 2012


On 08/05/2012, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On May 8, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Vihan Pandey wrote:
>
>> On 8 May 2012 19:47, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>>> Quite likely, but we need to know what you are doing and what
>>> graphics package you are using.
>>>
>>> PLEASE do read the posting guide
>>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>>>  and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>> Frightfully sorry about that. I'm using R on a Mac, and its a simple
>> plot using plot() which is taking values from a CSV file, let me
>> illustrate for one dataset :
>
> See if this is helpful. Untested,  since you still do not have a
> reproducible example for us to work with.
>
> x <- c(12345, 1234567, 123)
> paste( round( x/c(1, 1000, 1000000)[findInterval(x,
> c(1,1000,1000000)) ], 2),
>          c("","K","M")[findInterval(x, c(1,1000,1000000)) ]  )
>
> [1] "12.35 K" "1.23 M" "123 "

Thanks, xaxt, yaxt in plot() did the job. Sorry for not posting a
reproducible example I just needed a quick fix which I was sure would
be a simple option in plot() or elsewhere.

Thanks and Cheers!

- vihan

>
> --
> David.
>
>>
>> ======
>> #!/usr/bin/Rscript
>>
>> out_file = "foobar.pdf"
>> pdf(out_file, height=8.5, width=11)
>>
>> my_values <- read.csv("foo.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",")
>>
>> plot(my_values$num_sims,
>> 	my_values$exec_time,
>> 	xlab="Number of Simulations",
>> 	ylab="Execution Time(in milliseconds)",
>> 	col="red",
>> 	main="Execution Time for Simulations")
>>
>> lines(my_values$num_sims,my_values$exec_time,col="red")
>>
>> my_values2 <- read.csv("bar.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",")
>>
>> lines(my_values2$num_sims,my_values2$exec_time,col="blue")
>> points(my_values2$num_sims,my_values2$exec_time,col="blue")
>>
>>
>> legend("topright",
>> 	lty=c(1,1),
>> 	  c("foo","bar"),
>> 	  col=c("red","blue")
>> 	  );
>>
>> dev.off()
>>
>> print(paste("Plot was saved in:", getwd()))
>> ======
>>
>> foo.csv and bar.csv have values like:
>>
>> "num_sims","exec_time"
>> 1000000,44556
>> 2000000,89112
>> 3000000,133668
>>
>> etc.
>>
>> Please let me know if you require any additional information.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> - vihan
>>
>>>
>>> John Kane
>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: vihanpandey at gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Tue, 8 May 2012 19:29:45 +0200
>>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] Axes value format
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have some graphs where the values on the X and Y axes are by
>>>> default
>>>> in exponent form like 2e+05 or 1.0e+07. Is it possible to make
>>>> them in
>>>> a more readable form like 10M for 1.0e+07 or 200K for 2e+05?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>
>>>> - vihan
>>>>
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>
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