[R] x-axis annotation

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Mon Aug 9 21:42:06 CEST 2010


On Aug 9, 2010, at 3:14 PM, array chip wrote:

> Hi, I have a simple plot by plot(x,y, log='xy'). However, due to the  
> large range
> of values of x, the x-axis annotation is printed as "2e+02  1e+03  5e 
> +03  2e+04
> 1e+05" instead of "200  1000   5000 20000   100000". How can I make  
> it printed
> as in the later one?

?options  # especially scipen

 > options("scipen" =3)
 > plot(c(200 , 1000 ,  5000 ,20000  , 100000))  # "works for me"
 > options("scipen" =0) #  the default

>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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