[R] Different y-axes

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Jun 18 12:51:46 CEST 2002


Helmut Schütz <helmut.schuetz at chello.at> writes:

> What's wrong?
> 
> I tried today's examples and just got only both labels printed one over
> the other.
> 
> 1. Brian Ripley
> x <- 1:10
> y <- rnorm(10)
> z <- runif(10, 1000, 10000)
> par(mar=c(5,4,4,4) + 0.1)  # Leave space for z axis
> plot(x, y)
> par(new=T)
> plot(x, z, type="l", axes=F, bty="n", xlab="", ylab="")
> axis(4, at=pretty(range(z)))
> mtext(z, 4, 3)

This is fine if you leave out the last line... Did that really come
from Brian?? mtext("z", 4, 3) might have been the intention.
 
> 2. Don MacQueen
> x <- 1:5
> y1 <- 1:5
> y2 <- 25:21
> plot(x,y1)
> par(new=T)
> plot(x,y2,yaxt='n',col='blue')
> axis(4,y2)

you need at least ylab="" on the 2nd plot.

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