Message-ID: <x2ek1uyly1.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2006-02-23T18:22:30Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Changing the x-axis labels in plot()
In-Reply-To: <8975119BCD0AC5419D61A9CF1A923E950300838F@iahce2ksrv1.iah.bbsrc.ac.uk>
"michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk> writes:
> Hi
>
> Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
*Kapow*... [1]
> One of my colleagues wants a slightly strange graph. We basically have
> a data matrix, and she wants to plot, for each row, the values in the
> row as points on the graph. The following code draws the graph just
> fine:
>
> plot(row(d)[,3:9],d[,3:9])
>
> So as there are 12 rows in my matrix, there are 12 columns of points,
> which is what she wants.
>
> However, she wants the x-axis labelled with the row names, not with
> 1,2,3,4,5 etc
>
> I can figure out from reading par() how to turn off the default drawing
> of the numeri cal labels, but how do I use the row names instead?
axis(1, at=1:12, labels=rownames(d))
[1] Look e.g. at the examples section in plot.default.
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