R help - Jul 2013 - Query on R plot : Unequispaced label on x-axis

Dear R users,

I want to plot a one variable continuous function f(x) vs x, x=[0,1]. Say
for example: f(x)= x^2. Now, using the command plot(f~x) I will get a
curve where the range of x-axis is [0,1] with all equispaced label. But, I
need something else, and that is: my curve will be such that 80% on x-axis
the range would be [0,0.5] and the rest 20% would contain [0.5,1]. Let me
draw informally here. Say, the line below is my x-axis in graph and my
plotting points are like:



          ________________________________________
          0     0.01      0.1        0.5         1

Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciable.

Regards,
Ritwik
ISI Kolkata

On 24/07/2013 10:06 AM, ritwik_r at isical.ac.in wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I want to plot a one variable continuous function f(x) vs x, x=[0,1]. Say
> for example: f(x)= x^2. Now, using the command plot(f~x) I will get a
> curve where the range of x-axis is [0,1] with all equispaced label. But, I
> need something else, and that is: my curve will be such that 80% on x-axis
> the range would be [0,0.5] and the rest 20% would contain [0.5,1]. Let me
> draw informally here. Say, the line below is my x-axis in graph and my
> plotting points are like:
>
>
>
>            ________________________________________
>            0     0.01      0.1        0.5         1
>
> Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciable.
Construct a function pos(x) that takes the x values and converts them 
into the position on the axis that you want.  For example,

pos <- function(x) log(x + 0.001)

plot(pos(x), y, xaxt="n")

will plot the transformed values, with no x axis labels.  To get the 
labels, use

xvals <- c(0, 0.01, 0.1, 0.5, 1)  # or whatever makes sense
axis(1, at=pos(xvals), labels=xvals)

Duncan Murdoch