I want to make a plot, but instead of showing _numerical_ values, I would like to show _symbolic_ values. For example, I want to plot a function y = a x + b, where x varies between Xmin and Xmax. I would like the plot to show, in the x-axis, the strings Xmin and Xmax, instead of their numeric values. Is it possible? Alberto Monteiro
maybe you're looking for curve(), e.g., curve(5*x + 2, -3, 4, ylab = expression(5*x + 2)) I hope it helps. Best, Dimitris ---- Dimitris Rizopoulos Ph.D. Student Biostatistical Centre School of Public Health Catholic University of Leuven Address: Kapucijnenvoer 35, Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32/(0)16/336899 Fax: +32/(0)16/337015 Web: http://med.kuleuven.be/biostat/ http://www.student.kuleuven.be/~m0390867/dimitris.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <albmont at centroin.com.br> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: [R] Abstract plot>I want to make a plot, but instead of showing _numerical_ values, > I would like to show _symbolic_ values. > > For example, I want to plot a function y = a x + b, where > x varies between Xmin and Xmax. I would like the plot > to show, in the x-axis, the strings Xmin and Xmax, instead > of their numeric values. Is it possible? > > Alberto Monteiro > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
You can do than. You just need to specify the strings in the axis-labels. plot(y~x, axes = F) axis(1, at = range(x), labels = c("Xmin", "Xmax")) axis(2) Cheers, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Reseach Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 Thierry.Onkelinx op inbo.be www.inbo.be Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-bounces op stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces op stat.math.ethz.ch] Namens Alberto Monteiro > Verzonden: maandag 4 juni 2007 15:19 > Aan: r-help op stat.math.ethz.ch > Onderwerp: [R] Abstract plot > > I want to make a plot, but instead of showing _numerical_ > values, I would like to show _symbolic_ values. > > For example, I want to plot a function y = a x + b, where x > varies between Xmin and Xmax. I would like the plot to show, > in the x-axis, the strings Xmin and Xmax, instead of their > numeric values. Is it possible? > > Alberto Monteiro > > ______________________________________________ > R-help op stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >