axTicks | R Documentation |
Compute pretty tickmark locations, the same way as R does internally.
This is only non-trivial when log coordinates are active.
By default, gives the at
values which
axis(side)
would use.
axTicks(side, axp = NULL, usr = NULL, log = NULL, nintLog = NULL)
side |
integer in 1:4, as for |
axp |
numeric vector of length three, defaulting to
|
usr |
numeric vector of length two giving user coordinate
limits, defaulting to the relevant portion of
|
log |
logical indicating if log coordinates are active; defaults
to |
nintLog |
(only used when |
The axp
, usr
, and log
arguments must be consistent
as their default values (the par(..)
results) are. If you
specify all three (as non-NULL), the graphics environment is not used
at all. Note that the meaning of axp
differs significantly
when log
is TRUE
; see the documentation on
par(xaxp = .)
.
axTicks()
may be seen as an R implementation of the C function
CreateAtVector()
in ‘..../src/main/plot.c’
which is called by axis(side, *)
when no argument
at
is specified or directly by axisTicks()
(in package
grDevices).
The delicate case, log = TRUE
, now makes use of
axisTicks
unless nintLog = Inf
which exists for back
compatibility.
numeric vector of coordinate values at which axis tickmarks can be
drawn. By default, when only the first argument is specified,
these values should be identical to those that
axis(side)
would use or has used. Note that the values
are decreasing when usr
is (“reverse axis” case).
axis
, par
. pretty
uses the same algorithm (but independently of the graphics
environment) and has more options. However it is not available for
log = TRUE.
axisTicks()
(package grDevices).
plot(1:7, 10*21:27) axTicks(1) axTicks(2) stopifnot(identical(axTicks(1), axTicks(3)), identical(axTicks(2), axTicks(4))) ## Show how axTicks() and axis() correspond : op <- par(mfrow = c(3, 1)) for(x in 9999 * c(1, 2, 8)) { plot(x, 9, log = "x") cat(formatC(par("xaxp"), width = 5),";", T <- axTicks(1),"\n") rug(T, col = adjustcolor("red", 0.5), lwd = 4) } par(op) x <- 9.9*10^(-3:10) plot(x, 1:14, log = "x") axTicks(1) # now length 5, in R <= 2.13.x gave the following axTicks(1, nintLog = Inf) # rather too many ## An example using axTicks() without reference to an existing plot ## (copying R's internal procedures for setting axis ranges etc.), ## You do need to supply _all_ of axp, usr, log, nintLog ## standard logarithmic y axis labels ylims <- c(0.2, 88) get_axp <- function(x) 10^c(ceiling(x[1]), floor(x[2])) ## mimic par("yaxs") == "i" usr.i <- log10(ylims) (aT.i <- axTicks(side = 2, usr = usr.i, axp = c(get_axp(usr.i), n = 3), log = TRUE, nintLog = 5)) ## mimic (default) par("yaxs") == "r" usr.r <- extendrange(r = log10(ylims), f = 0.04) (aT.r <- axTicks(side = 2, usr = usr.r, axp = c(get_axp(usr.r), 3), log = TRUE, nintLog = 5)) ## Prove that we got it right : plot(0:1, ylims, log = "y", yaxs = "i") stopifnot(all.equal(aT.i, axTicks(side = 2))) plot(0:1, ylims, log = "y", yaxs = "r") stopifnot(all.equal(aT.r, axTicks(side = 2)))
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