Hi:

Do you mean to leave the x-axis as is and redo the y? If so, use graphical
parameter yaxt:

x <- y <- 1:10
plot(x, y, yaxt = 'n')
axis(2,  at = ..., lab = ..., ...)    # fill in the blanks

In case it matters, xaxt = 'n' suppresses the x-axis labels but not the y
labels.

HTH,
Dennis

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:50 PM, <sachinthaka.abeywardana@allianz.com.au>wrote:

>
> Hi R,
>
> In the following code my x-axis is formatted in month format. Which Im
> happy with. The y-axis is what I want to re-format with something else. My
> question is, is it possible just to switch off the xaxis in plot function
> (see below). If not how do you get the months to show up as FEB-YYYY,
> MAR-YYYY and so on, so I could fit a label on x-axis.
>
> Thanks,
> Sachin
> p.s. sorry about corporate notice.
>
> period<-c(100120,100220,100320);
> y<-1:3;
> period<-as.Date(strptime(period,("%y%m%d")));
>
> #the x-axis has a nice format with the month names
> win.graph();
> plot(period,y);
>
> #I dont want to lose this x-axis formatting :-(
> win.graph();
> plot(period,y, axes=FALSE, ann=FALSE);
> axis(2, at=1:3, labels=c("A","B","C"));
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