On Sunday 12 June 2005 00:17, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 00:07 +0100, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 June 2005 23:21, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> > > You can get publication quality plots from R with a bit of wrestling.
> > > I've had good luck with it for quite complicated plots. First do
> > > 'help(par)' and read carefully. The 'xlim' and 'ylim' parameters
> > > usually work fine -- I've not seen values outside the given range. Can
> > > you post your plot command? Also check out the 'lattice' package. There
> > > are some R - graphics guides on the web that may help.
> >
> > My plot command is as follows,
> >
> > plot(test[[1]],test[[3]],type="l",xlab="Time (s)", ylab="Current (mA)",
> > col="black", las=1, xlim=c(30,1000))
> >
> > It still decides to show 0 and a little below, and then 1000 and a little
> > above. May be there is some setting to tighten up the axes? Also need to
> > display the axes labels more concisely using scientific notation. I have
> > put a problem plot on the web so you can see the results,
> >
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~cryos/test.png
>
> It is actually using your xlim. The default axis type leaves some
> padding (white space) at the ends. (Notice that the plot line _does_ end
> at c(30, 1000).) Try: plot(..., xaxs = "i") to eliminate the padding.
>
> For customized axis labels, try plot(..., axes = F) and then use the
> "axis" command to generate the axes. You can specify exactly where you
> want the ticks to occur and what text gets placed next to them.
>
Thanks to some tips from you I seem to have it behaving much better now. I 
will try to at least write this paper and the corresponding poster using 
graphs generated by R. The analysis aspect is great - it is just tweaking it 
enough to get the graphics I need out of it.

Thanks for the pointers,

Marcus
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