[R] Text Labels on plots in R

[David Barron]

This should do what you want:

plot(x,y,axes=FALSE)
axis(1,at=1:5,labels=c("Dave","Tim","Ian","Steve","Paul"))
axis(2)

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Ruttle" <danny at intuitivemedia.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:59 AM
Subject: [R] Text Labels on plots in R


> Hi
>
> Is it possible to plot values against strings, i.e. the x axis has
people's
> names and the
> y axis as values, as shown below:
>
>
> 5    x
> 4           x                        x
> 3                    x
> 2                            x
> 1
> 0
>      Dave  Tim    Ian   Steve  Paul
>
> Sorry if this illustration is a little primitive, but I think it gets the
> point across.
>
> regards
> Danny
>
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