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Putting x-axis in opposite order

4 messages · Patrick Breheny, Jonathan Daily, Christofer Bogaso +1 more

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Try this:

plot(xx, yy, type="l", xlim=rev(range(xx)))

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Patrick Breheny
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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Bogaso Christofer
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 2:09 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] Putting x-axis in opposite order

Hi all, please consider this plot:

 

xx <- seq(4, 0.01, by = -0.04)

yy <- rnorm(xx)

plot(xx, yy, type="l")

 

Here you see my original 'xx' was in decreasing order, however R puts it in
the increasing order. I understand that in any plot x and y axis grow is
increasing order, however I am wondering whether I can manipulate this to
suit my above particular problem, so that number displayed in x-axis would
be in the given order.

 

Thanks,



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Actually, it is plotting the points in the decreasing order. See:

plot(xx)

Are you looking to reverse the x axis? Perhaps you will find an answer
in either ?par or ?axis.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Bogaso Christofer
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
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On 04/29/2011 04:09 AM, Bogaso Christofer wrote:
Hi Bogaso,
If all else fails, have a look at rev.axis in the plotrix package.

Jim