[R] Axes intercept

[Robert Baer]

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From: "KENT V.T." <v.t.kent at durham.ac.uk>
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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:28 AM
Subject: [R] Axes intercept


>I have a plot where the values of the y axis go from a positive number to a 
>negative number and I want the x axis to intercept at zero rather than at 
>the bottom of the y axis, regardless of its value. Can anyone help me to do 
>this?

?plot
?axis

As a toy example:
y=rnorm(100)
x=abs(y)
plot(x, y, axes=FALSE)
axis(1, pos=0)
axis(2)
box()


>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Vivien
>
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> Vivien Kent MSc Oxon
> PhD candidate
> Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group
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