[R] customizing the axis (adding labels)

[Jörg Groß]

Am 10.08.2008 um 17:46 schrieb stephen sefick:

> Would you provide reproducible code because form your example it looks
> like you are trying to label a scatterplot with just two lables - this
> is your boxplot from yesterday?  If so look into the ?boxplot and it
> will tell you some answers

No, what I want is to plot the mean for two different groups.
So that I get group 1 and 2 on the x-axis and also label it like that.


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> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Jörg Groß <joerg at licht-malerei.de>  
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to customize the x-axis.
>>
>> I tried that:
>> par(bty="n", xaxt="n")
>> so that the x-axis is supressed.
>>
>> then I tried to plot two variables and add a customized x-axis:
>> plot(x, y)
>> axis(1, at=c(1,2), labels=c("group1", "group2"))
>>
>> but the axis is not added to the plot.
>>
>> I don't understand why..
>> And how then can I customize the axis?
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