Changing axes of a plot

Dear all,
I tried to use the code below to generate 3 X 3 grid of latitude-longitude
data. I use image to view the grid. However, latitude and longitude are on
the wrong axes. ?Thus, I want to swap the axes. I tried to swap x and y in:
image(x, ..) that did not help. I also wish to add color code to the plot.
Thanks for kind help.

?portion of the data:
-3.3851 ?-65.3236
?-3.2696 ?-65.2364
?-3.2679 ?-65.2349
-17.6404 ?164.7025
?-4.8285 ?148.8214
?2.6477 ?-67.6568
?-0.2350 ?-73.4833
-16.8655 ? 40.9587
?8.1179 ?-61.6474
?-0.2755 ? 93.3401
-17.1733 ?119.9011
?1.1245 ?-69.7640
-20.0035 -149.3088
?-3.4200 ?177.8753
?3.0133 ?-67.5590
?15.4684 ?-21.9331
-17.6166 ?120.2656
-17.3888 ?165.9368
-17.6953 ?164.7335
?-1.8623 ?-74.0017
?-3.3562 ?-71.1195
-11.5775 ?130.1496

code:
xy<-matrix(c(x, y), ncol=2)

# 3 deg grid for counts
grid3 <- matrix(0, nrow=120, ncol=60)

# accumulate counts of points in cells
for (i in 1:nrow(xy)) {
?if (xy[i, 1] == 180)
?ix = nrow(grid3)
?else
?ix <- floor((xy[i,1] + 180) / 3) + 1

?if (xy[i, 2] == 90)
?iy = ncol(grid3)
?else
?iy <- floor((xy[i,2] + 90) / 3) + 1

?# catch any subscript errors
?tryCatch(
?grid3[ix, iy] <- grid3[ix, iy] + 1,
?error = function(e) cat("Ignoring point out of bounds:", xy[i,], "\n") )
}
rb<-rev(rainbow(255,s=1,v=1,start=0,end=7/12,gamma=1,alpha=1))
image( x = seq(-88.5, 88.5, 3), y = seq(-178.5, 178.5, 3), z = t(grid3),
col=rb, ylab = "Longitude", xlab="Latitude" )

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