> I'd like to plot things with axes going from the > highest to the lowest value
You can use the xlim and ylim parameters of the plot function. E.g: x = 1:100 plot(x, x^2) # normal plot(x, x^2, xlim=c(100,0)) # reversed x axis cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.