AxisInDollars: Build Better Looking Axis Labels for US Dollars and...

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

Convert and simplify axis labels that are in US dollars or percentages.

Usage

AxisInDollars(side, at, include.symbol = TRUE, simplify = TRUE, ...)
AxisInPercent(side, at, include.symbol = TRUE, simplify = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

side	An integer specifying which side of the plot the axis is to be drawn on. The axis is placed as follows: 1=below, 2=left, 3=above and 4=right.
at	The points at which tick-marks are to be drawn.
include.symbol	Whether to include a dollar or percent symbol, where the symbol chosen depends on the function.
simplify	For dollars, simplify the amount to use abbreviations of "k", "m", "b", or "t" when numbers tend to be in the thousands, millions, billions, or trillions, respectively.
...	Arguments passed to axis.

Value

The numeric locations on the axis scale at which tick marks were drawn when the plot was first drawn.

Author(s)

David Diez

See Also

buildAxis

Examples

x <- sample(50e6, 100)
hist(x, axes = FALSE)
AxisInDollars(1, pretty(x))

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.