[R] Truncating y axis
Hi folks, I want to have a y-axis using matplot where the y axis is truncated as shown schematically below: (msecs) 3000 | x ~ ~ 800 |x | | x | |||- 123 Position The ~ is supposed to stand for a curved line showing a break. The issue is that I want to plot the points shown by the x's, but if I plot a continuous y axis then the confidence intervals about the points at positions 2 and 3 are not clearly visible... Can someone suggest how this might be done? I did study the manuals and contributed manuals first, and searched the archives and FAQs, just couldn't find any discussion of such a situation. Thanks much in advance, -- Shravan Vasishth Phone: +49 (681) 302 4504 Computational Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes, Postfach 15 11 50 D-66041 Saarbrücken, Germany http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~vasishth __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
Re: [R] Truncating y axis
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:03:27 +0200 (MEST) Shravan Vasishth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I want to have a y-axis using matplot where the y axis is truncated as shown schematically below: (msecs) 3000 | x ~ ~ 800 |x | | x | |||- 123 Position The ~ is supposed to stand for a curved line showing a break. The issue is that I want to plot the points shown by the x's, but if I plot a continuous y axis then the confidence intervals about the points at positions 2 and 3 are not clearly visible... Can someone suggest how this might be done? I did study the manuals and contributed manuals first, and searched the archives and FAQs, just couldn't find any discussion of such a situation. Thanks much in advance, -- Shravan Vasishth Phone: +49 (681) 302 4504 See W. Cleveland The Elements of Graphing Data (Hobart Press) for reasons not to do this.Consider using a nonlinear scale or making the graph taller. --- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics Statistics Div. of Biostatistics Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
Re: [R] Truncating y axis
I want to have a y-axis using matplot where the y axis is truncated as shown schematically below: One (not so elegant) way is this: # original data with one very large y value x - c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y - c(1000, 120, 110, 108, 104) plot(x,y) # truncated y-axis plot y - c(140, 120, 110, 108, 104) plot(x,y, yaxt=n) axis(side=2, at=c(100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 140), labels=c(100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 1000)) rect(0, 130, 1, 131, col=white, border=white) par(xpd=T) lines(x=c(0.7,1), y=c(130, 130)) lines(x=c(0.7,1), y=c(131, 131)) -- Wolfgang Viechtbauer __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
