[R] Drawing functions on Cartesian coordinate systems

[Paul Smith]

On 9/28/07, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at intermountainmail.org> wrote:
> Look at the las argument in ?par for the easiest solution (can be passed
> to axis).

Thanks a lot, Greg! That is it!

Paul


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Paul Smith
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:19 PM
> > To: r-help
> > Subject: Re: [R] Drawing functions on Cartesian coordinate systems
> >
> > On 9/28/07, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at intermountainmail.org> wrote:
> > > I think he wants the axes crossing at 0,0 not on the outer
> > edges like
> > > the default.
> > >
> > > You can put the axes in the plot (though it tends to
> > distract rather
> > > than help in many cases) by:
> > >
> > > > axis(1, pos=0)
> > > > axis(2, pos=0)
> > >
> > > You will need to draw the arrowheads yourself.  There are options
> > > (under
> > > ?par) for tick length and how to suppress the default axes.
> >
> > Thanks, Greg, for your suggestion. That is in line with what
> > I was looking for. However, I still have  one more question.
> > Take the following code:
> >
> > curve(sin(x),-pi,pi,axes=F,ylab="",xlab="")
> > axis(1, pos=0)
> > axis(2, pos=0,at=c(-1,-0.5,0.5,1))
> >
> > How can I have the y axis labels rotated clockwise?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> > > > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> > Charles Annis, P.E.
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:32 AM
> > > > To: 'Paul Smith'; 'r-help'
> > > > Subject: Re: [R] Drawing functions on Cartesian coordinate systems
> > > >
> > > > Yes, R can do that.  Well, actually YOU can do that using R.
> > > >
> > > > But it is hard to believe that you looked very hard
> > before writing.
> > > > Did you look at these R functions?
> > > >
> > > > ?plot
> > > > ?line
> > > > ?points
> > > > ?arrows
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Charles Annis, P.E.
> > > >
> > > > Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
> > > > phone: 561-352-9699
> > > > eFax:  614-455-3265
> > > > http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> > > > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Paul Smith
> > > > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 1:12 PM
> > > > To: r-help
> > > > Subject: [R] Drawing functions on Cartesian coordinate systems
> > > >
> > > > Dear All,
> > > >
> > > > Can R draw plots of functions on a Cartesian coordinate
> > system with
> > > > axes like the ones shown at
> > > >
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cartesian-coordinate-system
> > > > -with-circle.s
> > > > vg
> > > >
> > > > ?
> > > >
> > > > I have already searched the R web-site, but found nothing.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
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