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Re: y-axis direction

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  • Subject: [mg4360] Re: [mg4292] y-axis direction
  • From: xah at best.com (Xah Lee)
  • Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 04:50:59 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

At 3:55 AM 96/6/29, Yuk Chai wrote:
>Question:
>
>      In ListPlot[....], how can one have the positive y-axis plotted
>downwards instead of the conventional upwards direction i.e.

Easily done by replacing your y-coordinates with opposite sign before
feeding the list to ListPlot. You do that by

ListPlot [ N[myList] /. {x_?AtomQ,y_?AtomQ} -> {x,-y} ]

If your list is one-dimentional, then just do

ListPlot[ -myList ]

 Xah
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