Dear Krishnan, This behaviour isn't particular to scatterplot() in car. Try setting options(scipen=10) and see ?options.
I hope this helps, John -------------------------------- John Fox Senator William McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Krishnan Viswanathan > Sent: October-13-11 6:44 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Axis Formats with library(car) > > I am trying to develop scatter plots using library(car). However, the output > I am getting shows the axis (x and y) in scientific notation. I want to have > the axis represented by regular integers (for eg. the X axis i want the upper > bound to show as 40,000,000 instead of 4.0e+07). Scanning the r-help archives > did not get me the answer. > > > I have uploaded my data here: http://bit.ly/olgMLt (scatter_example.csv). > The resulting graph is shown here: > http://bit.ly/r8XxUA(business_orig_scatterplot.pdf). My code is as > follows: > > estimation_data <- read.csv("scatter_example.csv",head=TRUE,sep=",") > library(car) > scatterplot(Bus_Orig ~ POP1995, data=estimation_data, > xlab="Population (1995)", ylab="Business Origins", > main="Scatter Plot - State Levels", > labels=row.names(estimation_data), boxplots=FALSE) > > I tried the following as well which gave me no results. > > # Trying to show #s in non-scientific format for presentation > estimation_data$BO <- format(estimation_data$Bus_Orig, scientific = FALSE, > big.mark = ",") > estimation_data$P95 <- format(estimation_data$POP1995, scientific = FALSE, > big.mark = ",") > > scatterplot(Bus_Orig ~ POP1995, data=estimation_data, > xlab="Population (1995)", ylab="Business Origins", > main="Scatter Plot - State Levels", > xlim=estimation_data$P95, ylim=estimation_data$BO, > labels=row.names(estimation_data), boxplots=FALSE) > > So any pointers to fix this would be helpful. > > TIA, > Krishnan > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.