Thank you, but why it does not work in linear? With the log scale, I know it works but I am not looking for it; is there a way to force a linear scale? Regards Luigi
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > > 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. > -- 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.