[R] Text Labels on plots in R

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Wed Apr 3 18:10:30 CEST 2002


On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, David Barron wrote:

> 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)
>


Or if x is a factor
  plot(codes(x),y,xaxt="n",xlab="x")
  axis(1,at=codes(x),labels=levels(x))
(perhaps the only use for the codes() function)

You might also want to look at the dotchart() function.

	-thomas

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