[R] plot shows exponential values incompatible with data

Jim Lemon drj|m|emon @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Jul 10 06:13:52 CEST 2020


Hi Luigi,
This is a result of the "pretty" function that calculates hopefully
good looking axis ticks automatically. You can always specify
ylim=c(1.0E09,max(Y)) if you want.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:59 PM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have these vectors:
> ```
> X <- 1:7
> Y <- c(1438443863, 3910100650, 10628760108, 28891979048, 78536576706,
> 213484643920, 580311678200)
> plot(Y~X)
> ```
> The y-axis starts at 0e0, but the first value is 1.4 billion. Why the
> axis does not start at 1e9?
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Luigi
>
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