Hi Jim and thanks for your answer. It does not work how I want. When I use your proposal, the values are superimposed like shown on the pic.
pic.png <http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4649368/pic.png> Thats my code (what I need is a y-scale with the following interrupts: 5,10,100,1000,5000): plot(BE_UK_ABFG$year, BE_UK_ABFG$ammo, type="s", col= "#DB270F", xaxt="n", #yaxt="n", ylim=c(0,5000), xlab="", ylab="", main="Ammo Rep 1885b", adj=0, las = 1, lwd=3, bty="n" ) abline(h=0:0, lwd=1, col="black") abline(h=1000:1000, lwd=0.3, col="darkgray", lty="dashed") abline(h=2000:2000, lwd=0.3, col="darkgray", lty="dashed") abline(h=3000:3000, lwd=0.3, col="darkgray", lty="dashed") abline(h=4000:4000, lwd=0.3, col="darkgray", lty="dashed") abline(h=5000:5000, lwd=0.3, col="darkgray", lty="dashed") lines (BE_UK_AW$year, BE_UK_AW$ammo, type="s", col= "#826A9F", lwd=3.5) axis(1,at=seq(2007,2010)) mtext(c(5,10,100,1000,5000),at=c(5,10,100,1000,5000),side=2,line=1, las=1) Thank you and best greetings GeO -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/no-drawn-y-axis-but-values-tp4649298p4649368.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.