how to remove scientific notation for plot()

Question

I have a plot

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How can I format the x and y axis so they are not in scienftic notation?

Thank you.

This question has already been answered: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5352099/how-to-disable-scientific-notation-in-r — C_Z_, Mar 09 '15 at 19:35

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '15 at 19:37

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I believe you can do this by adjusting the scientific notation setting for R in general. This should pretty much disable it: options(scipen=999)

answered Mar 09 '15 at 19:37

Danny

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That worked! Do you know how to format the x axis with commas? so 50000 is 50,000 – user3022875 Mar 09 '15 at 19:48
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You can do that to individual numbers like this: `format(1e6, big.mark=",", scientific=FALSE)` But to get the axis like that you will have to manually replace the entire axis, which is a bit of a pain. – Danny Mar 09 '15 at 19:53
Can you give an example of how to replace the axis to get the format with the commas? – user3022875 Mar 09 '15 at 20:35
As I said, it is a bit painful and involved. I would need to know more about your specific case to give an exact solution. In general you disable the axis with the `xaxt='n'` parameter in the plot function, then manually add an axis in with the "axis" function. Read `help(axis)` for full explanation or just post another question with more details about your situation. – Danny Mar 09 '15 at 20:56

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