AxisInPercent {openintro}

Build Better Looking Axis Labels for Percentages

Description

Convert and simplify axis labels that are in percentages.

Usage

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 place 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 AxisInDollars AxisInDollars

Examples

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