On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 11:40 +0100, jobst landgrebe wrote: > Dear List, > > can anyone tell me how to plot a discontinuous y-axis (ordinate > with a -/ /- "break sign") to fit in data with a wide range without the > need of logarthimic transformation? My data are distributed like this: > > (abscissa: 1:10) > > 1. vector to plot > > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 4.030 5.987 6.865 19.520 16.200 88.000 > > 2. vector to plot > > Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. > 0.000 2.112 2.620 2.976 4.303 7.030 > > I have just this one 88 outlier and cannot log-transform the data > (reviewers want plain data). > > I would be glad to get help. > > Yours sincerely, > > Jobst Landgrebe
See this post by Jim Lemon, whose plotrix package on CRAN has an axis.break() function authored by Jim and Ben Bolker: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/56487.html HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@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