[R] Simple plotting errors

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this (and make sure to follow the last line to every message
on r-help which asks for reproducible code in questions):

plot(amazon.sum, xlab = "Month", ylab = "Amazon Sum", xaxt = "n")
axis(1, at = 1:12, substr(month.abb, 1, 1))


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Steve Murray <smurray444 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the useful information; use of 'c(...)' did the trick, although in future I'll try to hold the data in a more user-friendly setup.
>
> I've now got a plot, but have two issues that I can't seem to resolve:
>
> 1, The ylab is overlapping the y-axis tick mark values. I've tried using oma and mar to adjust the outer and plot margins respectively, but this doesn't seem to 'detach' the overlapping text.
>
> 2. The x-axis currently has tick mark values of 2 to 12. How do change this to single-letter month labels? So far I've tried xlim=c("J","F","M",A","M"...) and names.arg=c("J","F","M"...), but these result in errors.
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Steve
>
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