?par tck Make tck a positive fraction <.5 (e.g. .02) in your call.
-- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process." - George E. P. Box > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:51 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Dirty Rotten Hack. (reversing tickmarks on axes?) > > > I feel dirty. > > > I have some graphs I'm building to communicate chargeback > rates and service > usage for our backup system here at the University of > Florida. These come > down to daily data points on a graph of number-of-bytes > transferred and > stored. > > Since we chargeback on the same basis (price per MB this, > price per KB that) > the same chart with a different scale can be used to > communicate bytes and > dollars. I set about trying to accomplish this like so: > > http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/try1.png > > Those axes are a little messy. I tried nudging them around > > http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/try2.png > > which is better but not good. What I really want to do is > tell my axis() > function to reverse the tick direction: put your ticks and > labels "inside" > the graph. Something like > > http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/dirty-hack.png > > which I accomplished by telling axis() 'line=-47.7'. > > Eugh. > > Note that the distance between the left side and the right is > different > between the right side to the left. :) I don't particularly > object to this, > when you abuse a tool in this manner you need to expect oddities. > > I've wandered through the mailing list logs, and haven't seen > reference to > this particular desire. Am I alone? :) > > > > - Allen S. Rout > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
