[R] How to plot graph with different scale (y axis) on same graph?

[ghostwheel]

You ask two questions. First, how to put points with a different y-axis on
the plot.
One possibility s like this:

>  plot(1:10)
>  plot.window(xlim=c(1,10),ylim=c(1,100))
>  points( seq(1,10,length=100), 100:1, col=2 )
>  axis(4,col.axis=2,col=2)

The command plot.window is the one that changes the range for ylim.

The second question is about plotting 5 million data points.
Since it is very hard to really take in 5 million data points, I'd subsample
the plot, so do
x=1:5e6
y=x^2
i=sample( seq( along=y ), 1e4 )
plot( x,[i], y[i] , pch=".")

If you do plot 5 million points, I'd plot them on a raster device, like png.
In if you plot them in pdf or postscript, printing/viewing the result will
take a long time.

So do something like
png("bigplot.png")
plot(x,y,pch=".")


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