Dear R users: I assigned students to make some graphs and I'm having trouble answering some questions that they have. We are all working on R 2.1 on Fedora Core Linux 4 systems.
1. In the plot, the axis is not labeled by "numbers", but rather scientific notation like "-2e+08" or such. We realize that means -200,000,000. We want to beautify the plot. We would rather just print out the whole, big number. But if we can't have that, we would like something more beautiful and mathematical, such as 8 -2.0x10 Once the numbers are big, R automagically switches to scientific notation, and turning the values horizontal does not help on the y axis. Example: x <- rnorm(100,mean=100000,sd=100000000) y <- rnorm(100,mean=10000000000,sd=100000000000) plot(x,y,axes=F) axis(2,las=2) #turns y axis numbers perpendicular to y axis axis(1) # x axis I realize a person could just divide all numbers by 1 million and then have a graph with -200 and an annotation (in millions). On the x axis, we'd even settle to just label the two outermost points with full numerical values, and then have only ticks between. I was looking for some way to use axis() to draw an unlabeled axis and then put in text labels after that. However, I can't understand how to get the values of the tick marks placed by axis from the figure in order to place text by some tick marks. 2. Some students make postscript figures that fit "just right" into LaTeX documents, while some make figures that have huge, inches-and-inches of margins around the outside. I'm not watching how they make these figures all the time, but I think I'm figuring out the cause of big margins. Is this right: the margins issue relates to the use of the onefile=F option in a dev.copy command? I think the figures turn out properly with this: dev.copy(postscript,file="myfig.eps",height=5,width=5,horizontal=F,onefile=F) dev.off() If you mistakenly omit the onefile=F option, the margins stretch out from the center where the figure is placed to the edges of an entire sheet of paper. In other words, the default settings for margins in inches that I see in output from > par() ... $mai [1] 1.0066821 0.8092935 0.8092935 0.4145162 ... have no effect if a person forgets the onefile=F option. We fiddled a while, trying to force margins down, par(mai=c(0,0,0,0)), but no matter what we did, the figures still had the massive margins. We don't have these margin problems with other devices. Margins in jpeg or png pictures are sized appropriately. -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 ______________________________________________ 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