[R] plot (log scale on y-axis)

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 13:28:30 CEST 2005


On 6/29/05, Jing Shen <jshen6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am planning to plot my data on log scale (y-axis). There is a
> parameter in plot function, which is
> plot( ..., log="y", ...)
> While, the problem is that it is with base of e. Is there a way to let
> me change it to 10 instead of e?
> 

Is your question how to get the axis labels to be powers of 10?
In that case,

plot(1:100, log = "y", yaxt = "n")  # do not show y axis 
axis(2, c(1,10,100))  # draw y axis with required labels




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