[R] Changing the Y graph scale Maximum value.

[John Fisler]

Jean,

Thanks for your response.  I did not know about the xlim and ylim 
parameters until I got additional replys.  I used the following code 
and it worked:

plot(0, 0, type = "n", xlim = c(0, 10), ylim = c(0, 6))

John

Jean Eid wrote:
> If I understand you correctl, you just want to call the point of (0,10) to
> be (0,6). if so have a look at text() function text(0,10, pos=2) or
> something like that will do. The reason why you are getting the error
> because your 0:10 vector is larger than 0:6 vector.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> P.S. why are you not doing plot(x,y, col="red", cex=1.5, ylim=c(0,6))
> but maybe I do not understand what you need....
> 
> Jean.
> 
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, John Fisler wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am new to R and have read the documents related to graphics but have
>>not come across a description of how to change the maximum scale on a
>>graph.  Below is sample code that sets up a plot window with a 0 Minimum
>>to 10 Maximum, X and Y coordinate system:
>>
>>x <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)
>>y <- c(1,1.5,2,2.5,3,3.5,4,4.5,5,5.5)
>>plot(0:10, 0:10, type = "n" )# setting up coord. system
>>points(x, y, col = "red", cex = 1.5)
>>
>>I now want to change the maximum Y axis scale to 6.  I am using the
>>'points' function to plot 'x' and 'y' because my 'real' data is X and Y
>>coordinate based.  When I try to change the maximum Y scale to 6 as in
>>the following code segment, I get the following error:
>>
>>plot(0:10, 0:6, type = "n" )# setting up coord. system
>>Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) :
>>         x and y lengths differ
>>
>>How do I change the maximum Y scale to 6?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>John Fisler
>>
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