Dear Sarah and A.K., Yes, both your suggestions give me exactly what I wanted. Thank you kindly. Lexi
________________________________ From: Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> Cc: "r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [R] A graph with a positive y-axis intercept Your question is not entirely clear to me, but I think you might want: plot(X, Y, xlim=c(0, 25), ylim=c(0, 25)) Sarah On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Lekgatlhamang, lexi Setlhare > Dear all, > > I have a challenge with a supposedly simple graph (a scatter). I wanted to > use R to create a plot/graph with a positive y-axis intercept but it does not > seem to give me what I expect to see. As an example, I used the following > values > >> X<- c(0, 4, 8, 11) >> Y<- c(8, 12, 15, 22) > > then I used the plot function in the base package > >> plot(X, Y) > > This gave me a graph which might be mistaken to be starting from the origin, > and yet, using the same numbers in Excel, and plotting them using the scatter > option, I get a graph which clearly has a positive y-axis intercept. > Please help. > > Lexi -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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