[R] 10^x instead 10EX on plot axes. How?

Berton Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Mon Jul 10 19:03:14 CEST 2006


You can always draw the axes by hand.

?par with axes =FALSE
?axis
?plotmath for mathematical notation in R (for exponents)

-- 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
 
 

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of hulubu at gmx.de
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> Subject: [R] 10^x instead 10EX on plot axes. How?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm drawing a very simple plot with both axes logarithmic 
> (default base 10).
> Example:
> vec=c(1,10,100,1000,10000,100000,1000000,10000000)
> plot(vec,vec,log="xy")
> 
> The axes on the plot now show the technical notation like 
> 1E+3 but I would prefer to have it the notation 10 ^3 i.e. 
> with the exponent here 3 superscript (raised).
> Any help very much appreciated!
> 
> Best Regards 
>  Tom
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