The original problem posed was:
On 14/05/2009 7:31 AM, Graves, Gregory wrote: > I have 3 columns: flow, month, and monthname, where month is 1-12, and > monthname is name of month. I can't get the plot to replace the 1-12 > with monthname using ticks.lab. What am I doing wrong? > > plot(flow~factor(month),xlab="Month",ylab="Total Flow per Month", > ylim=c(0,55000), ticks.lab="monthname") Here is the solution to this: # make a boxplot but suppress default labels on x axis with xaxt="n" plot(flow~factor(month),xlab="Month",ylab="Total Flow per Month", ylim=c(0,55000), xaxt="n") #NOTE xaxt # create a vector containing month abbrevs with [[1]] suffix as follows month.name<-list(c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"))[[1]] # place the 12 months on axis 1 (the x axis) as follows: axis(1, at=1:12, labels=month.name) Gregory A. Graves Lead Scientist REstoration COoordination and VERification (RECOVER) Watershed Division South Florida Water Management District Phones: DESK: 561 / 682 - 2429 CELL: 561 / 719 - 8157 ______________________________________________ R-help@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.