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On Aug 24, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Kay Cichini wrote:


hello,

all my attempts to get a plot with tick marks on both sides of axis failed -
can someone please help me with this?

The path I took to getting a glimmmer of the answer was to look at ? axTicks and then notice in the "..." arguments description that tck and tcl controlled tick direction and length. Then ...

?par  # yes, one does need to read the help pages.

... and testing my understanding....

> plot(1,1, tck=0.01)
> axis(1)


On Aug 24, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Kay Cichini wrote:


...i'm aware of par("tcl") and par("tck") but i needed tick marks on both sides of the axis - meaning to cross the axis perpendicularly - admittedly i
was clumsy not just calling axis twice, like:
plot(1)
axis(2,labels=T,tcl=0.25)
axis(2,labels=F,tcl=-0.25)

That results in overplotting the outside tick marks and the labels. This would have sufficed:

> plot(1)
> axis(2,labels=F,tcl=0.25)

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