[R] Axes in filled.contour plots

[Jim Lemon]

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 14:28 -0700, hippie dream wrote:
> I am still struggling on how edit axes on a filled contour plot. I have
> managed to figure out how to place labels on the key of this graph but how
> to place the axes I want on this plot still eludes me. This command produces
> the plot I am looking for however as mentioned before these axes only go
> from 0 to 1.  
> 
> > filled.contour(contour, frame.plot=TRUE, color=terrain.colors)
> 
> If I try to set the xlim and ylim the plot itself no longer appears but
> simply the key. Moreover, when I set the limits and add the axes in this way
> the axes spill over into the key.
> 
> > axis(side=1, at=c(10, 30, 50, 70, 90, 110, 130, 150, 170, 190))
> 
> Is there any way to manually replace the given axis label with one of my
> choosing? That is, the 0 to 1 labels will correspond easily to the labels I
> would like to place on the graph. The tick marks are conveniently already in
> the right place. For example, can I make 0.6 appear as 100 instead? I don't
> really need to change the axis at all but rather just the labels.I have
> spent considerable time trying to figure this out but I am still having
> trouble. Sorry if this is ridiculously simple.
> 
Hi Sam,
Are you looking for something like axis.mult in the plotrix package?

Jim