"Allen S. Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? :)
Possibly in space, but not in time and space: Someone seems to have been there before. Check out plot(0,tcl=.5,mgp=c(-3,-2,0)) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ 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