[R] Changing the x-axis labels in plot()

[Berton Gunter]

Please learn how to use R's extensive Help capabilities -- It **is** in the
"manual" -- and also in the R-help archives.

help.search('axis')  (obvious keyword, no?) will get you what you want.

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> michael watson (IAH-C)
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 7:35 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Changing the x-axis labels in plot()
> 
> Hi
> 
> Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
> 
> One of my colleagues wants a slightly strange graph.  We 
> basically have
> a data matrix, and she wants to plot, for each row, the values in the
> row as points on the graph.  The following code draws the graph just
> fine:
> 
> plot(row(d)[,3:9],d[,3:9])
> 
> So as there are 12 rows in my matrix, there are 12 columns of points,
> which is what she wants.
> 
> However, she wants the x-axis labelled with the row names, not with
> 1,2,3,4,5 etc
> 
> I can figure out from reading par() how to turn off the 
> default drawing
> of the numerical labels, but how do I use the row names instead?
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
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