[R] flipping a plot vertically?

Chuck Cleland ccleland at optonline.net
Thu Jun 15 20:32:25 CEST 2006


plot(runif(20), xaxt="n", ylim=c(1,0))
axis(side = 3)

Tim Brown wrote:
> That works great.  Thanks.
> 
> Any idea how to get the x axis numbers to go 
> along the top instead of the bottom?
> 
> tim
> 
> At 11:46 AM 6/15/2006, you wrote:
>> [Tim Brown]
>>
>>> This seems like an obvious question but I can't 
>>> find the answer in the "par" help document --- 
>>> I'd like to make a plot where the 0,0 point is 
>>> in the top left of the screen rather than 
>>> bottom left... .  [...] Any suggestions?
>> You might retry your plot, adding an ylim=c(HIGHEST, LOWEST) argument,
>> that is, listing the maximum before the minimum.  For example:
>>
>>   plot(1:10, ylim=c(10, 1))
>>
>> --
>> François Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca
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