[R] Dirty Rotten Hack. (reversing tickmarks on axes?)

[Berton Gunter]

?par tck

Make tck a positive fraction <.5 (e.g. .02) in your call.

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."  - George E. P. Box
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:51 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Dirty Rotten Hack. (reversing tickmarks on axes?)
> 
> 
> I feel dirty.
> 
> 
> I have some graphs I'm building to communicate chargeback 
> rates and service
> usage for our backup system here at the University of 
> Florida.  These come
> down to daily data points on a graph of number-of-bytes 
> transferred and
> stored. 
> 
> Since we chargeback on the same basis (price per MB this, 
> price per KB that)
> the same chart with a different scale can be used to 
> communicate bytes and
> dollars. I set about trying to accomplish this like so:
> 
> http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/try1.png
> 
> Those axes are a little messy. I tried nudging them around
> 
> http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/try2.png
> 
> which is better but not good.  What I really want to do is 
> tell my axis()
> function to reverse the tick direction:  put your ticks and 
> labels "inside"
> the graph.  Something like
> 
> http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~asr/media/r-foo/dirty-hack.png
> 
> which I accomplished by telling axis() 'line=-47.7'. 
> 
> Eugh.
> 
> Note that the distance between the left side and the right is 
> different
> between the right side to the left. :)   I don't particularly 
> object to this,
> when you abuse a tool in this manner you need to expect oddities.
> 
> I've wandered through the mailing list logs, and haven't seen 
> reference to
> this particular desire.  Am I alone? :) 
> 
> 
> 
> - Allen S. Rout
> 
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