[R] Replacing tick labels in a plot

Sarah Goslee sarah.goslee at gmail.com
Fri May 4 19:13:03 CEST 2012


What about ?axis as a place to start?

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Sarah

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Robert Latest <boblatest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to replace the text of tick marks in a plot?
> Specifically, I'd like to have a ppnorm plot in which the theoretical
> quantiles are not expressed in terms of standard deviations, but in
> actual percentages. Anybody who's seen a probability plot in MINITAB
> knows what I'm talking about.
>
> I have somewhat listlessly looked at mtext(), thinking that I could
> maybe first create my plot, then draw a white rectangle over the
> original numbers (how?), and then inserting my own numbers using
> mtext(). To me this sounds so stupid that I haven't yet invested any
> effort into actually giving it a shot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> BTW, is it normal that each and every post to this list, even by list
> members, has to go through moderator approval?
>
> Thanks,
> robert


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