[R] Newbie Question About Setting Plot Axis Limits

andrew andrewjohnroyal at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 02:06:23 CEST 2009


This is not a complete answer, but try the following in order

plot(c(1,1), ylim=c(0, 15), xlim=c(0, 13), axes = FALSE)
axis(1)
axis(2)
box()

If you want lines, use abline.  Hacking something together can be done
with these commands.


On Sep 24, 9:36 am, Jason Rupert <jasonkrup... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Using the following: plot(c(1,1), ylim=c(0, 15), xlim=c(0, 13))
>
> However, it produces the following:http://n2.nabble.com/Simple-Plot-Axis-Limits-Question-td3703091.html
>
> This is not what I expected because I would have expected the origin to be (0, 0), but on the plot it looks a little different on the plot.  
>
> The y axis also appears to extend a little beyond 15.  Is there some way to have the plot command respect the requested ylim and xlim settings?  
>
> Thanks again for any insight.
>
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