Dear UseRs, I'd like to make the lines that the axes of my plot run on bold. I know "axis(side=1,lwd=3)" will make 0-max value on the axis bold, but I want the whole thing, from corner to corner (actually all the way around) and tick marks and the accompanying values for the ticks bold. In the default values, it's hard to see the plot when I put it into a powerpoint. I've got the points and line and labels, but not the square and ticks of the plot itself any darker or bolder. If there are other suggestions for making it more visible, I'd welcome those too. John Polo
On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:10 PM, john polo wrote:> Dear UseRs, > > I'd like to make the lines that the axes of my plot run on bold. I > know "axis(side=1,lwd=3)" will make 0-max value on the axis bold, > but I want the whole thing, from corner to corner (actually all the > way around) and tick marks and the accompanying values for the ticks > bold. In the default values, it's hard to see the plot when I put it > into a powerpoint. I've got the points and line and labels, but not > the square and ticks of the plot itself any darker or bolder. If > there are other suggestions for making it more visible, I'd welcome > those too.Well the ticks got wider on the quartz device (Mac) when I used axis(side=1,lwd=3), so only the box would seem to be faint. ?box box(lwd=3)>-- David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
On 11/18/2010 4:27 PM, David Winsemius wrote:> > Well the ticks got wider on the quartz device (Mac) when I used > axis(side=1,lwd=3), so only the box would seem to be faint. > > ?box > > box(lwd=3)Box was a new one for me. After removing a conflicting option, it seems to have worked. Thank you. John
Often when things look to small/thin it is because the plot is being created at too large a size, then shrunk. How are you creating the graph? How are you transferring it? Try creating the graph at the exact size that it will be when used in the powerpoint, then without needing to resize things should look better. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.snow at imail.org 801.408.8111> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r- > project.org] On Behalf Of john polo > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:10 PM > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] Bold plot axis > > Dear UseRs, > > I'd like to make the lines that the axes of my plot run on bold. I know > "axis(side=1,lwd=3)" will make 0-max value on the axis bold, but I want > the whole thing, from corner to corner (actually all the way around) > and > tick marks and the accompanying values for the ticks bold. In the > default values, it's hard to see the plot when I put it into a > powerpoint. I've got the points and line and labels, but not the square > and ticks of the plot itself any darker or bolder. If there are other > suggestions for making it more visible, I'd welcome those too. > > > John Polo > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.