[R] how to control ticks

[peter dalgaard]

On Dec 21, 2010, at 17:01 , Edwin Groot wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:06:52 +0530
> Yogesh Tiwari <yogesh.mpi at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I want 12 ticks at axis 1 and want to write Jan-Dec on each.
>> 
>> something like:
>> 
>> axis(1, at=1:12,
>> labels=c('J','F','M','A','M','J','J','A','S','O','N','D'))
>> 
>> I could omit default ticks but now how to control ticks.
>> 
> 
> Dear Yogesh,
> I spray my clothing with "No-Bite", and that controls ticks quite well.

Yeah, but then how do you get the suckers to sit still while you write on them?

;-)

> 
> :-)
> Edwin
> 
>> plot(file$time, file$ch4*1000, ylim=c(1500,1700), xaxt='n', xlab= NA,
>> ylab=NA,col="blue",yaxs="i",lwd=2, pch=10, type="b")#
>> 
>> axis(1, at=1:12,
>> labels=c('J','F','M','A','M','J','J','A','S','O','N','D'))
>> 
>> BUT above is not working, and there is no error as well.
>> 
>> Pls help,
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Yogesh
>> 
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> 
> Dr. Edwin Groot, postdoctoral associate
> AG Laux
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