If the structure is your xx variable, then you are creating a plot that goes from 1911 to 2006 (plus a little to either side), then asking the axis function to draw and label an axis from 1 to 11, which is very far off the plotting device to the left. Try giving the axis function a list of values actually within the range of the data that you plot.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of John Kane > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 1:13 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] drawing an axis using axis command > > > > I am clearly doing something extremely stupid here but why is this code > not writing the axis values for this graph? > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > > structure(list(year = c(1911L, 1921L, 1931L, 1941L, 1951L, 1961L, > 1971L, 1981L, 1991L, 2001L, 2006L), total = c(7206643L, 8788483L, > 10376786L, 11506655L, 14009429L, 18238247L, 21568310L, 24083500L, > 26994045L, 29639030L, 31241030L), non = c(5619682L, 6832747L, > 8069261L, 9487808L, 11949518L, 15393984L, 18272780L, 20240165L, > 22427745L, 23991910L, 24788720L), imm = c(1586961L, 1955736L, > 2307525L, 2018847L, 2059911L, 2844263L, 3295530L, 3843335L, 4342890L, > 5448480L, 6186950L), nonperm = c(0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, > 0L, 223410L, 198640L, 265360L)), .Names = c("year", "total", > "non", "imm", "nonperm"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, > -11L)) > > plot(myxx[,1],myxx[,3], xaxt="n", > xlab="Census Years", ylab="Population" > pch=16, col=" red") > axis(3, at=1:11, labels=myxx[,1]) > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
