something like this sounds like what you want: labs<-NA x<-200
for(i in 1:5){ labs<-append(labs, c(rep(NA,3),x)); x<-x+200 } plot(1:900, xaxt="n", xlim=c(0, 1000)) axis(side = 1, at = seq(0,1000,by=50), labels=labs) On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks, > I'm advising someone who's a beginner with R, > and therefore wants the simplest answer possible. > > The issue is to produce a plot using > > plot(x,y,...) > > where, on the X-axis, the tick-marks should be > on the lines of: > > -- Range of X-axis: 0:1000 > -- tick-marks labelled "0","200",...,"800","1000" > -- unlabelled tick-marks every 50 from 0 to 1000. > > regardless of the actual range of x-values (which > however would normally range over most of 0:1000). > > I've looked at the Q-Q Plot example in the MASS > book (Section 3.4), which does achieve this kind > of effect, but the code is too complicated for > the present context. (Whatever code is used needs > to be readily changeable for different plots of > the same general kind). > > Is there a way of supplying straightforward > arguments to plot() which would achieve this? > > I've been reading and site-searching for a while, > and the best I can find is on the lines of > > plot((x,y,pch="+",col="blue",xlim=c(0,1000),xaxt="n") > par(xaxp=c(0, 1000, 50)) > axis(1) > > which is already complicated enough in the present > context; but it doesn't do exactly what is required > since (for example) if the x-values range from > 0 to 900 the labelled tick-marks are at > > 0 60 140 220 300 380 460 540 620 700 780 860 940 > > and have therefore been computed from the range of > the data, and not from the specified range of the x-axis. > > Help please! > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 30-Nov-07 Time: 11:55:16 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.