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3 messages · Alberto Monteiro, Dimitris Rizopoulos, ONKELINX, Thierry

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I want to make a plot, but instead of showing _numerical_ values,
I would like to show _symbolic_ values.

For example, I want to plot a function y = a x + b, where
x varies between Xmin and Xmax. I would like the plot
to show, in the x-axis, the strings Xmin and Xmax, instead
of their numeric values. Is it possible?

Alberto Monteiro
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maybe you're looking for curve(), e.g.,

curve(5*x + 2, -3, 4, ylab = expression(5*x + 2))


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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You can do than. You just need to specify the strings in the
axis-labels.

plot(y~x, axes = F)
axis(1, at = range(x), labels = c("Xmin", "Xmax"))
axis(2)

Cheers,

Thierry
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