How to set Boxplot Y axis limits in millions

Question

When I do a boxplot diagram with the R boxplotfunction, this function prints the y-axis automatically.

boxplot(x=DF$Baseline.Investment, xlab="Baseline.Investment",col=c('green'))

I want the y axis limits changed to millions. Could someone help with this question? Thanks in advance.

y axis limits are printed this way : 0e+00, 2e+06, 4e+06 etc. I want it to read it in thousands or millions. I am trying to figure out how to do that. — smrithi, Aug 05 '21 at 00:15
Perhaps look here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6897243/labelling-logarithmic-scale-display-in-r — j__carlson, Aug 05 '21 at 00:26

dcarlson · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-05T04:07:05.353

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The easy way

set.seed(42)
x <- rlnorm(100, 12, 2)
boxplot(x/1e6, ylab="Amount in Millions")

If you want more control over the axis labels, create your own axis:

boxplot(x, yaxt="n", ylab="Amount in Millions")
axis(2, c(0, 5e6, 1e7, 1.5e7), c("0", "5", "10", "15"), las=1)

edited Aug 05 '21 at 04:07

answered Aug 05 '21 at 03:48

dcarlson

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