Questions tagged [yaxis]
For plotting questions related to adjusting the y-axis.
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How do I set the figure title and axes labels font size?
I am creating a figure in Matplotlib like this:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
plt.plot(data)
fig.suptitle('test title')
plt.xlabel('xlabel')
plt.ylabel('ylabel')
fig.savefig(...
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How to set the axis limits
I need help with setting the limits of y-axis on matplotlib. Here is the code that I tried, unsuccessfully.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure(1, figsize = (8.5,11))
plt.suptitle('plot title')...
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How can I plot with 2 different y-axes?
I would like superimpose two scatter plots in R so that each set of points has its own (different) y-axis (i.e., in positions 2 and 4 on the figure) but the points appear superimposed on the same ...
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Barchart with vertical ytick labels
I'm using matplotlib to generate a (vertical) barchart. The problem is my labels are rather long. Is there any way to display them vertically, either in the bar or above it or below it?
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seaborn heatmap y-axis reverse order
Have a look at
this
heatmap found in the seaborn heatmap documentation.
Right now the y-axis starts with 9 at the bottom, and ends with 0 on top.
Is there a way to turn this around, i.e. start with 0 ...
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Setting the same axis limits for all subplots
This problem seems simple enough, but I can't find a pythonic way to solve it. I have several (four) subplots that are supposed to have the same xlim and ylim. Iterating over all subplots à la
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Fixing x axis scale and autoscale y axis
I would like to plot only part of the array, fixing the x part, but letting the y part autoscale. I tried as shown below, but it does not work.
Any suggestions?
import numpy as np
import matplotlib....
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yaxis range display using absolute values rather than offset values
I have the following range of numpy data (deltas of usec timestamps):
array([ 4.312, 4.317, 4.316, 4.32 , 4.316, 4.316, 4.319, 4.317,
4.317, 4.316, 4.318, 4.316, 4.318, 4.316, 4.318, ...
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How to plot on secondary y-Axis with plotly express
How do I utilize plotly.express to plot multiple lines on two yaxis out of one Pandas dataframe?
I find this very useful to plot all columns containing a specific substring:
fig = px.line(df, y=df....
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Make axis ticks labels bold when using usetex=True
I want to have bold labels on my axis, so I can use the plot for publication. I also need to have the label of the lines in the legend plotted in bold.
So far I can set the axis labels and the legend ...
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Combining Bar and Line chart (double axis) in ggplot2
I have double-y-axis chart made in Excel. In Excel it requires only basic skills. What I'd like to do is to replicate this chart using the ggplot2 library in R.
I have already done this, but I need ...
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How to plot without extending axis limits
I'm trying to draw on an existing axis without extending or modifying its limits.
For example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
xy = np.random.randn(100, 2)
plt.scatter(xy[:,0], ...
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Aligning y-ticks to the left
I have tick labels of variable length, and I want to align them to the left (i.e. to have a space between the shorter ones and the y axis). Is there any reasonable way to do this?
Using horizontal ...
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Adding second Y axis on ggplotly
I have created the following dataframe object and graph using plotly and ggplot
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly)
rdate <- function(x,
min = paste0(format(Sys.Date(), '%Y'), '-01-01')...
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Set ylim on subplot secondary y-axis
I want to plot the data in subplots using secondary axes. I can set the ylim but it affects only the secondary y-axis (on the right side). I can't find a way to control the ylim on the primary y-axis (...
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formatting secondary y axis in pandas
I am plotting a pandas DataFrame with several columns as below:
fig, ax = py.subplots(figsize=(11.7, 8.3))
df.plot(ax=ax, secondary_y=[A])
I can format the primary yaxis with a command as below:
ax....
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How to reverse secondary continuous_y_axis in ggplot2
I have a dataset I would like to graph with two Y-axes. The would like to reverse the secondary Y-axis so that it runs -60 to -40. The primary Y-axis should run 300-550. I cannot figure out how to ...
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How to hide y axis?
I plot a horizontal boxplot in MATLAB -- boxplot(y, group,'orientation','horizontal'), and then hide the y-axis using set(gca,'box','off','ycolor','w').
It looks fine on the screen - only the bottom ...
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Octave: Add secondary y axis to existing plot
I am using Octave 4.2.1 portable under Win 10.
I have several plots in a single chart, with a single y axis, each one created with a plot(...) sentence.
I want to add a plot in a secondary y axis to ...
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ggplot2 (Barplot + LinePlot) - Dual Y axis
I am having a really hard time recreating an excel example with ggplot2. I have tried numerous examples but for some reason I cannot reach my desired result. Can someone please have a look at my ...
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ggplot: Boxplot by several categorical variables
I am trying to plot several boxplots in one chart using ggplot2. I have 1 continuous variable and several factors. I would like to have a single Y axis and each pair of boxplots to have their own x ...
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Matplotlib: imshow with second y axis
I'm trying to plot a two-dimensional array in matplotlib using imshow(), and overlay it with a scatterplot on a second y axis.
oneDim = np.array([0.5,1,2.5,3.7])
twoDim = np.random.rand(8,4)
plt....
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Echarts3.0 display percent on y-axis in stacked bar chart
Using Echarts3.0 in Vuejs2.0 component, I am trying to assign percent on y-axis in a stacked bar chart. I tried boundaryGap, splitnumber, etc, but none of them worked.
But i cannot achieve it, ...
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R | ggplot2 | (remove tick marks + remove panel border) but keep axis lines
novice user here so please be kind and gentle! :)
I am dealing with the following dataset and R script:
#Create pvalue ranges
pvalue <- c(".000 - .005",".005 - .010",".010 - .015",".015 - .020","....
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Changing the imshow origin
I have a table of data with 3 columns, which I want to plot the third column in terms of the first two in a colorful 2D plot. For example for the following table i.e.
4.0 4.0 0.313660827978
4.0 5.0 ...
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Recharts Y-Axis interval issue
I am using Recharts Library for the graph in the ReactJS. There is one strange issue of setting intervals for the Y-Axis. There are few options available "preserveStart" | "preserveEnd&...
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Two plot side by side using base R plots, with shared titel and shared x-axis label
I'm trying to plot two plots side by side using base R.
I'd like them to share the title and the x-axis and y-axis label.
However, the range of the plots is different, so I want to keep the number of ...
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Highcharts Plot Reciprocal Values For Column Height
I am trying to plot a categorical multi axis column chart of rankings. The number 1 ranking should be the tallest column and lowest ranking the shortest.
Essentially I would like the height of the ...
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Error "NAs are not allowed in subscripted assignments" while using Squash_axis in ggplot2, with dataset without NA-values
I want to skip part of my y-axis for a dataset with most values between -10 and 100, and then a few at 400 again. So I want to squeeze this empty area. I already am using facet grid in my plot for 3 ...
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Multiple y axis for bar plot and line graph using ggplot
I have some transpiration data from an experiment that I would like to show as a time series on a line graph using R. I also have some precipitation data which I would like to show on the same graph ...
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Chart.js How to change y axis title position
I am working with the chart.js library to create a graph and I am almost done. One of the last things is to position the title of the yAxis to the top just under the legend.
I currently have ...
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How to add more Y-axes to MSChart with different scale at left or right side
I want to add 3 Y-axes for the chart with different scales.
I want to get one x axis and different y axis. I did it like below code but I want to show one y axis like in the 2nd image that I attached....
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Y-break with scale change in R
I am still new to R. I agreed to help a friend replot his graphs however one of his plot designs is proving quite hard to reproduce. This is because he inserted a Y-axis break followed by a scale ...
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ggplot yaxis with arrow [duplicate]
Is there anyone who knows how to change the y-axis horizontally and add the arrow?
I want to make graph like this.
This is the code that I used for making this graph.
ggplot(plot, aes(x=Worried....
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How to set limit range
Why doesn't matplotlib.pyplot.xlim() method work in the below example?
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
l = [0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1.0]
plt.plot(l,l)
plt.xlim = (-10,10)
plt.show()
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ggplot2: How to end y-axis on a tick mark?
I am making several different plots with different axis ranges, so this question does not apply to only the code I am showing here. I tried modifying the breaks and intervals of tick marks, but for ...
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Rotating the y-axis label
I am trying to rotate the title of the Y axis so it is horizontal. I do not want the tick labels horizontal just the title of the Y axis. I have to use subplots as I am making multiple plots at once....
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How to change the limits from scale_y_continuous depending on the plot in R?
I want to draw boxplots with the number of observations on top. The problem is that depending on the information and the outliers, the y-axis changes. For that reason, I want to change the limits of ...
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Subplots with two y axes (each) - plotly and python/pandas
Are there guidelines on how to set up secondary Y-axes in python for plotly?
I am assinging axis style through an iterative loop, as follows:
all_plots = ['plot1','plot2'...'plot20']
fig = tools....
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Python Seaborn FacetGrid different y-axis
I'm using sns.FacetGrid to plot 10 subplots. I'd like to flex the y-axis to be different for each subplot.
At the moment it automatically uses the same for all subplots. Would it be possible to ...
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ggplot2 facet_grid create panels on the y-axis
I have similar data like the following example:
dat1 <- data.frame(group=c("a", "a","a", "a","a","a","b","b","b","b","b", "b", "b","b","b","c","c","c","c","c","c"),
subgroup=c(...
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How to extract y axis labels from boxplot in R?
How to extract the y-axis labels from the boxplot in R?
Example,
bxp = boxplot(1:100)
The y-axis labels are 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100. I wonder how to extract this programmingly?
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Plot with 2 y-axes : reversing the first one but not the second
First, I plotted a line chart of Depth in function of Age. Then, I added a second y-axis : Sedimentation Rate.
The problem is that my first y-axis (Depth) should be reversed, going from 0 (top) to 310 ...
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Plotting a swarmplot on a violinplot changes the ylim and truncates the violins
import seaborn as sns
import numpy as np # for sample data
import pandas as pd
# sample data
np.random.seed(365)
rows = 60
data1 = {'Type 1': ['a'] * rows,
'Total': np.random.normal(loc=25, ...
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ggplot of 2 ts-objects (time series) with 2 y axes (secondary y-axis)
I want to plot 2 ts-objects as bars and lines, respectively, using 2 y-axes. How can I do this in ggplot?
I have 2 ts-objects: one is the value of a variable, the other is the annual change. The data ...
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automatically adjust axis limits while plotting separate plots together
I would like to automatically adjust the ggplot graphs while plotting side-by-side.
library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)
set.seed(123)
freq <- sample(1:10, 7, replace = T)
labels <- c('AUS', '...
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Latex in y-axis title in plotly not working
Can you please tell me why fig.update_yaxes(title=dict(text="$\text{This is a test:} \sqrt{2^4}$") does not work in the following code
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.bar(df, x=["...
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Force y axis to start at 0, insert "break", AND have a large y axis using ggplot2 [duplicate]
I am still working on finalizing a reproducible figure for publication. Reviewers would like to see the below plot's y-axis start at 0 and include line break "//". The y-axis will need to ...
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How to rotate Seaborn heatmap in python?
default settings of seaborn.heatmap gives
the x-axis starts from the origin of 0 then increases towards the
right
the y-axis starts from an origin of 9 then increases towards the
upward
This is odd ...
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R barplot - how to add y axis '%' suffix?
pdf("whatever.pdf", height=4,width=8)
B <- c(0,0.585,0.043,0.006,0.012,0.244,0.004,0.008,0.119,0.012,0.095)
barplot(B, names.arg = c("ce","de","en","es","fr","it","ja","nl","ru","sv","All"), las=1, ...
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