[R] plot options including formatting axes

[P Ehlers]

Jannis wrote:
> Hi Sachin,
> 
> please read the posting guide and include a reproducible example of what 
> you want to do.
> 
> For your first question you should have a look at ?axis. Supplying the 
> 'at' argument with the positions of the desired marks and the 'labels' 
> with text strings like '10.000$' should do what you want. There may be 
> easier ways though...
> 
> The second problem should be solved with adding your xlab and ylab 
> arguments to the call of plot() and not to title().
> 
> 
> HTH
> Jannis
> 

A couple more ideas:
1. use ann = FALSE in your plot call to omit labels
    and then add them with title(); see ?plot.default

2. use options(scipen = 3) to avoid the exponential
    format; then use format(y, big.mark = ",") to
    format your y-axis values.

   -Peter Ehlers

> sachinthaka.abeywardana at allianz.com.au schrieb:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Currently my plot shows the y-axis in scientific notation (1e07 and so on).
>> I want to be able to display this in dollars such that it shows $10,000,000
>> (including the commas). How do I do this.
>>
>> Also with the xlabel and ylabel. I've specified: 'title('Cash vs
>> Time',xlab='Period',ylab=''); Im hoping that this will also not display
>> anything on the y-axis. Instead it is actually overwriting the default
>> x-label and the default y-label remains the same.
>>
>> Is there something I was supposed to do. I thought by specifying the 'xlab'
>> option in title it gets rid of the default one.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sachin
>>
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