Yes, what I wanted was the original suggestion and that is what I went
with. John, I found a solution around par also. There is a function called
split.screen that allows you split the screen up, and also use par at the
same time.

Thanks everyone for all your help.

Cheers

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:02 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau@inbox.com> wrote:

> Well, I don't think that is what Shane wants either but my suggestion is
> clearly wrong.  I was reading the question as a dual axis not just a
> suplimentary , equivalent value axis.  DUH.
>
> What I think he wants is what IIRC  Petr orginally suggested which is
> this..
>  Create the data to be graphed
>         x<-1:5
>         y1<-x
>         y2<-x^2
>
> # Set the par values
>        # op  <- par(las=1,xaxs="r",mai=c(1,1,1,1))
>
> # Draw the  plot
>         plot(x,y1,xlim=c(0,5),ylim=c(0,5), ylab="y1", las = 1)
>         title(main="Equvalent Axes in R")
>         axis(3, labels = c("10", "100", "1,000", "10,000", "100,000"),
> at=1:5)
>         text(12, 50, "y2", srt = 270, xpd = TRUE)
>         par(op)  # reset par
>
>
>
> John Kane
> Kingston ON Canada
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Sent: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:37:58 +0100
> > To: careyshan@gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [R] How do I show real values on a log10 histogram
> >
> >>>>>> Shane Carey <careyshan@gmail.com>
> >>>>>>     on Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:03:20 +0000 writes:
> >
> >     > Yup, Ive tried all these things and I think Johns might be
> >     > the best approach,
> >
> > well, :-)
> > you have not yet seen the following one :
> >
> > if(!require("sfsmisc")) install.packages("sfsmisc")
> > require("sfsmisc")
> >
> > ## the data:
> >        set.seed(1); summary(x <- rlnorm(100, m = 2, sdl = 3))
> > ## the plot (w/o  x-axis) :
> >        r <- hist(log10(x), xaxt = "n", xlab = "x [log scale]")
> > ## the nice axis:
> >        axt <- axTicks(1)
> >        eaxis(1, at = axt, labels = pretty10exp(10^axt, drop.1=TRUE))
> >
> >
> > Martin Maechler,
> > ETH Zurich
> >
> >
> >     > thanks
> >
> >     > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:01 AM, PIKAL Petr
> >     > <petr.pikal@precheza.cz> wrote:
> >
> >     >> Hi
> >     >>
> >     >> maybe axis(3, (x)^10)
> >     >>
> >     >> Regards Petr
> >     >>
> >     >> > -----Original Message----- > From:
> >     >> r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- >
> >     >> project.org] On Behalf Of Shane Carey > Sent: Tuesday,
> >     >> March 26, 2013 11:19 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org >
> >     >> Subject: [R] How do I show real values on a log10
> >     >> histogram
> >     >> >
> >     >> > Hi,
> >     >> >
> >     >> > I have a histogram with values logged to the base 10
> >     >> >
> >     >> > hist(log10(x),breaks=60)
> >     >> >
> >     >> > How do I show the log values on the x-axis and a second
> >     >> x-axis showing > the real values?
> >     >> >
> >     >> > Thanks
> >     >> >
> >     >> > --
> >     >> > Shane
> >     >> >
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> >     >> >
> >     >> > ______________________________________________ >
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> >     >>
> >
> >
> >
> >     > --
> >     > Shane
> >
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