How to limit a plot to certain ranges-CodePudding

I have a plot with a lot of data all bunched into the lower numbers, and a few outliers make the scale of the X and Y axis huge.

I don't want to delete these outliers, as they are not incorrect, but I would like to create a separate plot focussing on the data between X axis 2,000,000 views and Y axis 5,000,000 subscribers.

CodePudding user response：

I recommond to set a log scale. Or you may want to set x and y axis limites by specifying the minimum and the maximum values of each axis for your needs.

Indicating if x or y or both coordinates should be plotted in log scale:

log = “x”
log = “y”
log = “xy”

OR axis limites

xlim: the limit of x axis; format : xlim = c(min, max)
ylim: the limit of y axis; format: ylim = c(min, max)

# --- sample data 
view_count <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,90,100,110)
subscriber_count <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,190,200,210)

covviddf <- data.frame(view_count, subscriber_count)
covviddf
plot(covviddf$view_count, covviddf$subscriber_count, 
     main = "Comparison between channel subscribers and video views", 
     xlab = "Views", ylab = "Subscribers")

# set log scale for x and y ----------------------------------------------------
plot(covviddf$view_count, covviddf$subscriber_count, 
     main = "Comparison between channel subscribers and video views", 
     xlab = "Views", ylab = "Subscribers", log="xy")

# set x and y axis limites by specifying the minimum and the maximum -----------
plot(covviddf$view_count, covviddf$subscriber_count, 
     main = "Comparison between channel subscribers and video views", 
     xlab = "Views", ylab = "Subscribers", xlim=c(1,80), ylim=c(1,180))

Log Scale result: