[R] A graph with a positive y-axis intercept

[Sarah Goslee]

Your question is not entirely clear to me, but I think you might want:

plot(X, Y, xlim=c(0, 25), ylim=c(0, 25))

Sarah

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Lekgatlhamang, lexi Setlhare
<lexisetlhare at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a challenge with a supposedly simple graph (a scatter). I wanted to use R to create a plot/graph with a positive y-axis intercept but it does not seem to give me what I expect to see. As an example, I used the following values
>
>> X<- c(0, 4, 8, 11)
>> Y<- c(8, 12, 15, 22)
>
> then I used the plot function in the base package
>
>> plot(X, Y)
>
> This gave me a graph which might be mistaken to be starting from the origin, and yet, using the same numbers in Excel, and plotting them using the scatter option, I get a graph which clearly has a positive y-axis intercept.
> Please help.
>
> Lexi

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