[R] drawing an axis using axis command

John Kane jrkrideau at yahoo.ca
Mon Jul 6 21:55:28 CEST 2009



Of course. I actually tried that but apparently messed it up.

My thanks to eveyone. I knew it was something relatively obvious but I was completely blanking out on it.


--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov> wrote:

> From: Don MacQueen <macq at llnl.gov>
> Subject: Re: [R] drawing an axis using axis command
> To: "John Kane" <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>, r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Monday, July 6, 2009, 3:47 PM
> After your plot command, type
> 
>    par()$usr
> 
> It will show you that your x axis range is 1907 to 2009.
> But you 
> tried to put the axis labels at x=1 to 11, which are not
> within the 
> range of the data.
> 
> -Don
> 
> At 12:13 PM -0700 7/6/09, John Kane wrote:
> >I am clearly doing something extremely stupid here but
> why is this 
> >code not writing the axis values for this graph?
> >
> >Any suggestions gratefully received.
> >
> >
> >structure(list(year = c(1911L, 1921L, 1931L, 1941L,
> 1951L, 1961L,
> >1971L, 1981L, 1991L, 2001L, 2006L), total = c(7206643L,
> 8788483L,
> >10376786L, 11506655L, 14009429L, 18238247L, 21568310L,
> 24083500L,
> >26994045L, 29639030L, 31241030L), non = c(5619682L,
> 6832747L,
> >8069261L, 9487808L, 11949518L, 15393984L, 18272780L,
> 20240165L,
> >22427745L, 23991910L, 24788720L), imm = c(1586961L,
> 1955736L,
> >2307525L, 2018847L, 2059911L, 2844263L, 3295530L,
> 3843335L, 4342890L,
> >5448480L, 6186950L), nonperm = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L,
> 0L, 0L,
> >0L, 223410L, 198640L, 265360L)), .Names = c("year",
> "total",
> >"non", "imm", "nonperm"), class = "data.frame",
> row.names = c(NA,
> >-11L))
> >
> >plot(myxx[,1],myxx[,3], xaxt="n",
> >xlab="Census Years", ylab="Population"
> >  pch=16, col=" red")
> >axis(3, at=1:11, labels=myxx[,1])
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   
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