Hi, The following seems to work:
plot(1:12,1:12,xaxt='n',xlab=NA) axis(1,at=1:12,labels=c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D") ) So I'd guess that your X axis data, file$time, doesn't take the values 1 to 12. Martyn -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Yogesh Tiwari Sent: 21 December 2010 12:37 To: r-help Subject: [R] how to control ticks Hi, I want 12 ticks at axis 1 and want to write Jan-Dec on each. something like: axis(1, at=1:12, labels=c('J','F','M','A','M','J','J','A','S','O','N','D')) I could omit default ticks but now how to control ticks. plot(file$time, file$ch4*1000, ylim=c(1500,1700), xaxt='n', xlab= NA, ylab=NA,col="blue",yaxs="i",lwd=2, pch=10, type="b")# axis(1, at=1:12, labels=c('J','F','M','A','M','J','J','A','S','O','N','D')) BUT above is not working, and there is no error as well. Pls help, Regards, Yogesh [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star.\ _...{{dropped:12}} ______________________________________________ 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.