Hello, I want to do a plot of two series, but adding a secondary axis in the rigth side to take into account the different scales of the two series. Anyone can tell me haw can I do that in R? Thank you very much Maria -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/secondary-axis-in-a-plot-tp17402079p17402079.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
MarySR:> I want to do a plot of two series, but adding a secondary axis in the > rigth side to take into account the different scales of the two series. > Anyone can tell me haw can I do that in R?I would *strongly* advice you to read this article on dual-scaled axes before proceeding: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/dual-scaled_axes.pdf Anyway, your question has been answered several times in the past. Try the search term "two axes" at "http://www.rseek.org/". -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
If you need to do it:
plot(PLOT1, bty='c')
par(new=TRUE)
plot(PLOT2, axes=FALSE, ylab='', xlab='', bty='c')
axis(4)
mtext("secondary y-axis label",4)
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM, MarySR <maria.soto@md.ieo.es> wrote:
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> Hello,
> I want to do a plot of two series, but adding a secondary axis in the rigth
> side to take into account the different scales of the two series. Anyone
> can
> tell me haw can I do that in R?
> Thank you very much
> Maria
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MarySR wrote:> Hello, > I want to do a plot of two series, but adding a secondary axis in the rigth > side to take into account the different scales of the two series. Anyone can > tell me haw can I do that in R?Hi Maria, Have a look at twoord.plot in the plotrix package. Jim