[R] plot shows exponential values incompatible with data

[Fox, John]

Dear Jim,

As I pointed out yesterday, setting ylim as you suggest still results in "0e+00" as the smallest tick mark, as it should for evenly spaced ticks. 

Best,
 John

> On Jul 10, 2020, at 12:13 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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