[R] Odp: Second y-axis --- alternative to par(new=

[Petr PIKAL]

Hi

Try ?twoord.plot from plotrix package.

Regards
Petr



r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 07.10.2009 10:29:53:

> Hi
> 
> is there an alternative to par(new), for ading data to a plot for a
> different y-axis?
> My problem with par(new=TRUE) is, that it re-defines all axis and labels 
(as
> in example 1) and one has to use xlim=... to fix the x-axis.
> I am looking for something, which simply resets the y-axis, so that a 
new
> plot() (or points()/lines()) keeps the x-axis, but re-defines the 
y-axis.
> 
> Is there something available? I could re-scale the y-data to fit the
> existing y-axis, but that would mean to define all the labels and 
tickmarks
> for axis 4 manually.
> 
> HEre is an example about what I mean:
> 
> x1 <- 1:10
> y1 <- runif(10)
> x2 <- 1:11
> y2 <- c(y1*100, 0)
> 
> ## (1) Does not plot points where (x-axis) they should be
> plot(x1, y1, type="l")
> par(new=TRUE)
> plot(x2, y2, type="p")
> axis(4)
> 
> ## (2) Does plot points where (x-axis) they should be
> xlim <- range(x1)
> plot(x1, y1, type="l", xlim=xlim)
> par(new=TRUE)
> plot(x2, y2, type="p", xlim=xlim)
> axis(4)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Rainer
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