Thank you both. Using axis I have gotten exactly what I needed. Thanks, Mitch
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Levine [mailto:thomas.lev...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:34 PM To: Sarah Goslee Cc: Downey, Patrick; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Y Axis Labels Oops. That was backwards plot(scale~time,axes=F) axis(2,at=0:4,labels=c("Never", "Once per month", "A few times per month", "A few times per week","Everyday")) axis(1) Tom 2010/10/27 Thomas Levine <thomas.lev...@gmail.com>: > More specifically > > time=rnorm(20)+10 > scale=rep(0:4,4) > plot(time~scale,axes=F) > axis(1,at=0:4,labels=c("Never", "Once per month", "A few times per > month", "A few times per week","Everyday")) > axis(2) > > Tom > > 2010/10/27 Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com>: >> You can use axis() to draw custom axes of many sorts. >> The examples under ?axis demonstrate how to not draw the default axes >> and how to make custom ones. >> >> Sarah >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Downey, Patrick <pdow...@urban.org> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have am plotting a 0-4 ordinal scale (y-axis) against time >>> (x-axis). Is there a way to label the values on the y-axis with the >>> translation from the scale? That is, instead of having 0,1,2,3,4 on >>> the y-axis, I would like "Never", "Once per month", "A few times per >>> month", "A few times per week", "Everyday." >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mitch >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sarah Goslee >> http://www.functionaldiversity.org >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.
