Perhaps y is a factor. E.g., > plot(x=c(3,5), y=factor(c(0,1))) > plot(x=c(3,5), y=factor(c("Pig","Goat"))) both treat y as as.numeric(y), which is c(1,2) in the first and c(2,1) in the second.
When you import data into R, always look at it with str() and various plots to convince yourself it is what you think it is. Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of R. Michael Weylandt > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 3:42 PM > To: Georgiana May > Cc: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] plotting 0,1 data > > Can you give a reproducible example: it doesn't for me > > x <- c(3, 5) > y <- c(0, 1) > plot(x, y) > > What you might be getting confused with is > > plot(y) > > where the x axis is now at 1 and 2 -- this is because when only given > a single vector to plot, R plots the values against their indices, > which, as all indexes in R, start at 0. > > For more on how to make a reproducible example, see this resource and > the links therein: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible- > example > > Best, > Michael > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Georgiana May <g...@umn.edu> wrote: > > Hello, > > Anyone know why the command: > >> plot(x,y) where y is a 0,1 result > > sometimes plots the y values as 1,2 rather than 0,1? > > > > And how to prevent this? > > > > Thank you, > > Georgiana May > > > > [[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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.