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Tyler Brent de Leon
Tyler Brent de Leon

Reputation: 29

How do you change the starting point of your plot in R?

I want to set the starting point of my graph (both in the x- and y-axis) to be zero. I have used the xlim() and ylim() functions to no avail. I have attached my code below.

setwd ("D:/Rcode/Assignment_2") #setting up the working directory
LightGrowth1 <- read.csv ("LightGrowth-1.csv") #reading the file and attaching it to a dataframe
Light <- LightGrowth1$light #attach our light values to a vector in R
Growth <- LightGrowth1$growth #attach our growth values to a vector in R
Labels <- c("Light", "Growth") #create a vector using the labels 
plot (Light, Growth, xlab = "Amount of Light (units)", ylab = "Plant Growth (units)", 
      pch = 16, col= "firebrick", xlim = c(0, max (Light)), ylim = c (0, max (Growth)),
      main = "Plant Growth vs Amount of Light"
       
        )

This is what my plot currently looks like: Plot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2425

Answers (1)

nico
nico

Reputation: 51640

Your axes do start at 0, and xlim and ylim are what you need to change that.

What I think you are referring to is the spacing between the axes and the plot. There are two extra parameters that allow you to change that, xaxs and yaxs.

plot (x, y, xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(0,10),
      xaxs="i", yaxs="i")

This should do the trick

See the par help for more info.

Upvotes: 1

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