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bumblebee
bumblebee

Reputation: 1116

R: two axes and grid lines

I would like to plot two graphs in the same plotting region with horizontal grid lines. Each side of the grid lines should give the value for one graph or the other. There should be no y-axis.

The grid() function allows me to simply set the number of bins using the ny= argument. How do I get the corresponding labels to the grid lines? Usually, I would use axis(..., lwd=0) to get the labels. However, the function requires label positions with at=c() and does not feature a ny= argument. Is there a way to automatically set the locations from the number of bins?

Based on Miff's hint below, this should solve the problem. 

plot(1:10, axes=FALSE, ylim=c(0,10), ylab="")
par(yaxp=c(0, 10, 5))
axis(2, lwd=0, col.axis="gray") 
par(new=TRUE)
plot(60:50, axes=FALSE, ylim=c(50,60), ylab="") 
par(yaxp=c(50, 60, 5)) 
axis(4, lwd=0, col.axis="gray") 
grid(NA, NULL)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 326

Answers (1)

Miff
Miff

Reputation: 7941

grid() gets its locations for gridlines from axTicks(), which in turn uses numbers from par("yaxp"). If you modify this parameter (rather than explicitly passing it to grid), the result will then apply to both the grid drawn and the axis. For example:

plot(1:10, axes=FALSE)
axis(2) #Default 4 sections between ticks
par(yaxp=c(par("yaxp")[1:2], 7)) #Lets have seven instead
axis(4) 
grid() #Grid now matches with right rather than left

Obviously similar works for the x axis.

Upvotes: 1

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