I have two separate questions. The first is when I use xlab, the labels on my tic marks disappear. Is there a way to make them reappear? Also, is there a way to make my own labels for the tick marks? My second question is, after I have spent a lot of time getting my plot to look just right, I want to save it to a file, but the only way I seem to know how to do it is to first use postscript() and then make the plot and then use dev.off(). I keep forgetting to do this, and I am wasting so much time. Is there a way to save the plot after I have already made it? Anna
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3 messages · Anna H. Pryor, Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, Pierre Kleiber
Hi,
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Anna H. Pryor wrote:
The first is when I use xlab, the labels on my tic marks disappear. Is there a way to make them reappear? Also, is there a way to make my own labels for the tick marks?
Which version of R are you using on which platform? Which plot were you
trying to draw that cause this? Can you give us some reproducible
examples?
The example seems to work fine:
plot(1:10, xlab = "A Label", ylab = "Another Label",
axes = FALSE)
axis(1, at = seq(1, 10, by = 2),
labels = c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e"))
axis(2, at = seq(1, 10, by = 2),
labels = c("f", "g", "h", "i", "j"))
box()
My second question is, after I have spent a lot of time getting my plot to look just right, I want to save it to a file, but the only way I seem to know how to do it is to first use postscript() and then make the plot and then use dev.off(). I keep forgetting to do this, and I am wasting so much time. Is there a way to save the plot after I have already made it?
You should be typing your R codes in a text editor (whatever platform you're working on). Then copy and paste the codes into R. This way you are not only able to make changes easily but also you have a good way to keep your history. There are other graphics formats available, such as png(), pdf()...etc.
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Anna H. Pryor wrote:
I have two separate questions. The first is when I use xlab, the labels on my tic marks disappear. Is there a way to make them reappear? Also, is there a way to make my own labels for the tick marks? My second question is, after I have spent a lot of time getting my plot to look just right, I want to save it to a file, but the only way I seem to know how to do it is to first use postscript() and then make the plot and then use dev.off(). I keep forgetting to do this, and I am wasting so much time. Is there a way to save the plot after I have already made it?
Once you have the plot looking just right on the screen, it is not necessary to replot in order to save it as a file. Check out the functions dev.copy(), dev.copy2eps, and dev.print() Pierre Kleiber
Anna
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