Just calculate a new sequence if those percentages are in an orderly sequence. See ?seq v <- seq(25, 200, by = 10) or perhaps the values are actually text ?substr x <- substr(v, 1,2)
John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: diddle1...@fastwebnet.it > Sent: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:26:54 +0200 (CEST) > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Substituting the values on the y-axis > > Hello, > > I plotted a graph on R showing how salinity (in ‰, y-axis) changes with > time(in > years, x-axis). However, right from the beginning on the Excel > spreadsheet the v > alues for salinity appeared as, for example, 35000‰ instead of 35‰, which > I gues > sed must have been a typing error for the website from which I extracted > the dat > a (NOAA).Thus, I now would like to substitute these values with the > correspondin > g smaller value, as it follows: > > 25000 35000-> 25, 35 and so on. > > Is there any way I can change this on R or do I have to modify these > numbers bef > ore inputting the data on R (for example on Excel)? If so, can anybody > tell me h > ow to do either of these? > > Many thanks! > > Emanuela > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! ______________________________________________ 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.
