Agreed. The main reason I wanted the change in alignment was that I had three curves that were converging to a asymptote, and when I drew the horizontal asymptote via abline(), it distorted the picture somewhat since the line from abline() goes all the way to the y-axis.
On 5/20/08 12:21 PM, "Greg Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mathematicians like to have axes cross at 0, the general rule for statistics > is to have the axes positioned so that they help you understand the data, but > don't interfere with the actual points (or force too much whitespace by being > put to far away from the data), so the default positioning follows that idea. > If you really want the axes to cross at 0 you can do: > >> plot(0:10, 0:10, axes=FALSE) >> axis(1, pos=0) >> axis(2, pos=0) > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (801) 408-8111 > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Afshartous >> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:50 AM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: [R] Alignment of axes intersection >> >> >> All, >> >> Very basic question I can't seem to find the answer to: >> >> plot(0:10, 0:10) >> >> The axes intersection is not aligned at (0,0) in the lower left. >> How does one force this? >> >> I searched for graphical parameters under par(graphics) but >> can't seem to find it. >> >> Thanks! >> David >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.