discontinuous y-axis (ordinate with a -/ /-)

From: jobst landgrebe <jlandgr1 at gwdg.de>
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] discontinuous y-axis (ordinate with a -/ /-)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:40:01 +0100

Dear List,

can anyone tell me how to plot a discontinuous y-axis (ordinate
with a -/ /- "break sign") to fit in data with a wide range without the
need of logarthimic transformation? My data are distributed like this:

(abscissa: 1:10)

1. vector to plot

   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
  4.030   5.987   6.865  19.520  16.200  88.000

2. vector to plot

   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
  0.000   2.112   2.620   2.976   4.303   7.030

I have just this one 88 outlier and cannot log-transform the data
(reviewers want plain data).

I would be glad to get help.

Yours sincerely,

Jobst Landgrebe

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Dr. Jobst Landgrebe
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Abt. Biochemie 2
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