Dear Luigi, > On Jul 9, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I have these vectors: > ``` > X <- 1:7 > Y <- c(1438443863, 3910100650, 10628760108, 28891979048, 78536576706, > 213484643920, 580311678200) > plot(Y~X) > ``` > The y-axis starts at 0e0, but the first value is 1.4 billion. Why the > axis does not start at 1e9?
Because you're plotting on a linear, not log, scale, and 0*10^11 = 0. > round(Y/1e11) [1] 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 Then try plot(log(Y) ~ X). I hope this helps, John ----------------------------- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > -- > Best regards, > Luigi > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.