You can also try:

axis(1)
axis(2, las=1)
axis(2,at=c(0.1361), las=1)

bests

milton




On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:26 PM, aegea <gcheer3@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello, I am frastruated with this graph, just cannot get what I need. Thank
> you for any suggestions or help. I really appreciate it. I wrote the
> following code, but there are 3 problems
>
> 1, the red line is added on the graph but without any marker on the y-axis.
> I want to display the number '.1361' on the y-axis. So people can easily
> tell 'method 2' gets a constant estimate, which is 0.1361.
>
> 2, since 'method2' is a constant. I prefer in the legend area, it just
> shows
> 'method2' as a short red bar instead of a knot/spot in the middle of the
> red
> bar  in the legend area. How can I delete that spot?
>
> 3, when I draw 'method1' in blue one, I prefer a filled/shaded circle
> instead of the unshaded circle. I tried pch='.', seems it does not really
> work.
>
> Hopefully I make my question clear. Thanks a lot for any help!
>
>
>
> size=c(80, 40, 20, 16, 10, 8, 4, 2)
> estimate=c(0.1353, 0.1337, 0.1237, 0.1164,  0.1058, 0.0983, 0.0759 ,
> 0.0607)
> plot(size, estimate, type="o", lwd=1.5, col="blue", ylim=c(0, 0.2),
> xlim=c(0,80))
> abline(h=0.1361, col="red", lwd=1.5)
> legend(0, 0.2,c("method1","method2"), cex=0.8,    col=c("blue","red"),
> pch=21:1, lty=1);
>
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