Dear Steve, I'm not sure I properly understood the question. Try x<- aggregate_1986 # just a shortcut n<- dim(x)[[1]] matplot(x[n:1,1], x[n:1,2:3], type="l", col=2:3)
is that what you needed? Patrizio 2009/5/4 Steve Murray <smurray...@hotmail.com>: > > Dear R Users, > > I am executing the following command to produce a line graph: > > matplot(aggregate_1986[,1], aggregate_1986[,2:3], type="l", col=2:3) > > On the x-axis I have values of Latitude (in column 1) ranging from -60 to +80 > (left to right on the x-axis). However, I wish to have these values shown in > reverse on the x-axis, going from +80 to -60 (ie. North to South in terms of > Latitude). I have tried doing this by altering the command as follows: > > matplot(-aggregate_1986[,1], aggregate_1986[,2:3], type="l", col=2:3) > > ...but this produces the inverse sign of the latitude values along the axis - > ie. it goes from -80 to +60. > > How do I reverse the display of the axis labels correctly and of course, > maintain the associated data values correctly? > > Many thanks, > > Steve > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- +------------------------------------------------- | Patrizio Frederic, PhD | Assistant Professor, | Department of Economics, | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, | Via Berengario 51, | 41100 Modena, Italy | | tel: +39 059 205 6727 | fax: +39 059 205 6947 | mail: patrizio.frede...@unimore.it +------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ 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.
