Dear Luigi,
> On Jul 9, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you,
> but why it does not work in linear? With the log scale, I know it
> works but I am not looking for it; is there a way to force a linear
> scale?
The scale *is* linear and the choice of tick marks, which are evenly spaced, is
reasonable, given that 10^9 is 2 orders of magnitude smaller than 10^11. That
is, on a linear scale with this range, 10^9 isn't much larger than 0.
If you really want a tick at 10^9, then you can just put one there:
plot(Y~X, axes=FALSE, frame=TRUE)
axis(1)
axis(2, at=c(1e9, (1:6)*1e11))
But now the ticks aren't evenly spaced (though they appear to be because, as
I mentioned, 10^9 is "close" to 0).
Best,
John
> Regards
> Luigi
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM Fox, John <jfox at mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Luigi,
>>
>>> On Jul 9, 2020, at 8:59 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have these vectors:
>>> ```
>>> X <- 1:7
>>> Y <- c(1438443863, 3910100650, 10628760108, 28891979048,
78536576706,
>>> 213484643920, 580311678200)
>>> plot(Y~X)
>>> ```
>>> The y-axis starts at 0e0, but the first value is 1.4 billion. Why
the
>>> axis does not start at 1e9?
>>
>> Because you're plotting on a linear, not log, scale, and 0*10^11 =
0.
>>
>>> round(Y/1e11)
>> [1] 0 0 0 0 1 2 6
>>
>> Then try plot(log(Y) ~ X).
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>> John
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> John Fox, Professor Emeritus
>> McMaster University
>> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>> Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> Best regards,
>>> Luigi
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>
>
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> Luigi
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