[R] Changing the x-axis labels in plot()

[Peter Dalgaard]

"michael watson (IAH-C)" <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi
> 
> Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S

*Kapow*... [1]
 
> One of my colleagues wants a slightly strange graph.  We basically have
> a data matrix, and she wants to plot, for each row, the values in the
> row as points on the graph.  The following code draws the graph just
> fine:
>  
> plot(row(d)[,3:9],d[,3:9])
> 
> So as there are 12 rows in my matrix, there are 12 columns of points,
> which is what she wants.
> 
> However, she wants the x-axis labelled with the row names, not with
> 1,2,3,4,5 etc
> 
> I can figure out from reading par() how to turn off the default drawing
> of the numeri cal labels, but how do I use the row names instead?

axis(1, at=1:12, labels=rownames(d))


[1] Look e.g. at the examples section in plot.default.

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