On Mon, 17 May 2004, Sander Oom wrote: > Almost but not quite: > > Someone told me R would produce such high quality graphics, I would never > need a separate graphics package again. This does however mean that I need > to be able to draw the graph exactly the way I want it to look! > > I have searched the web and help files extensively, but there are few > references on plotting time on an axis.
You don't have `time', you have a set of numbers in 0-24. I did suggest you treat them as such. > The function presented here > (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/00a/1031.html) could be useful, but > I'm not sure how to implement it in my example. Anyway there should be a > simpler way. > > The following code uses the example again. It does have hours on the > x-axis, but the tic marks are printed as: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20. Not a very > intuitive frequency of tic marks. How do I get R to plot tic marks at: 0, > 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 or 0, 2, 4..., 24? I want the tic marks to be fixed, Use axis(), of course. That is in all the basic info on R, as well as all good books on S/R. > i.e. they should still go from 0-24 even when the range of the data is > smaller. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
