Message-ID: <4A0C0AA1.1090107@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-05-14T12:12:17Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: replacing default axis labels on a plot
In-Reply-To: <ADA89BAFDF636E4BA593CB4DA683D72B02A9CBE5@EXCHVS02.ad.sfwmd.gov>
On 14/05/2009 7:31 AM, Graves, Gregory wrote:
> I have 3 columns: flow, month, and monthname, where month is 1-12, and
> monthname is name of month. I can't get the plot to replace the 1-12
> with monthname using ticks.lab. What am I doing wrong?
>
> plot(flow~factor(month),xlab="Month",ylab="Total Flow per Month",
> ylim=c(0,55000), ticks.lab="monthname")
ticks.lab is not a parameter to the plot.formula function. You don't
say where you found it described, but I'd suggest you read your source
more closely, or just use xaxt="n" in the plot call, and construct your
own call to axis(), e.g. axis(1, at=1:12, labels=monthname).
Duncan Murdoch
>
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>
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