Here is one way to do it with a smaller set of data, but the 'range' is the
same:


> x <- c(1,1000,1000000)
> y <- pretty(range(x))
> y
[1] 0e+00 2e+05 4e+05 6e+05 8e+05 1e+06
> plot(x,1:3,xaxt='n', xlab="X * 10^5")
> axis(1, at=y, labels=y/100000)
>



On 12/28/05, R.C.GILL@soton.ac.uk <R.C.GILL@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Apologies for this simple question and thanks in advance for any help
> given.
>
> Suppose I wanted to plot 1 million observations and produce the command
>
> plot(rnorm(1000000))
>
> The labels of the xaxis are 0, e+00 2 e+05 etc. These are clearly not very
> attractive (The plots are for a PhD. thesis).
>
> I would like the axes to be 0,2,4,6,8,10 with a *10^5 on the right hand
> side.
>
> Is there a simple command for this?
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Roger
>
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