[R] Axis/Ticks/Scale

[P Ehlers]

Try this:

x <- c(1, 1e6); y <- 0:1
par(mar = c(5, 4, 4, 5) + 0.1)  # make room at the right
plot(x, y, axes = FALSE)
box()
axis(2)
axis(1, at = 0:5 * 2 * 1e5, labels = 0:5 * 2)
mtext(text = expression(phantom(0)%*%10^5),
       side = 1, line = 1, at = 11.0 * 1e5)

Peter Ehlers

R.C.GILL at soton.ac.uk wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Apologies for this simple question and thanks in advance for any help given.
> 
> Suppose I wanted to plot 1 million observations and produce the command
> 
> plot(rnorm(1000000))
> 
> The labels of the xaxis are 0, e+00 2 e+05 etc. These are clearly not very
> attractive (The plots are for a PhD. thesis).
> 
> I would like the axes to be 0,2,4,6,8,10 with a *10^5 on the right hand
> side.
> 
> Is there a simple command for this?
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Roger
> 
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