Re: switching axes in Plot?
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- Subject: [mg96340] Re: switching axes in Plot?
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:33:23 -0500 (EST)
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Hi John,
the cheapest solution is simply to rotate the picture:
Rotate[Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 10}], Pi/2]
However, that is probably not good enough as the labels face the wrong
way. A better way is to use ParametricPlot:
ParametricPlot[{Sin[x], x}, {x, 0, 10}]
hope this helps, Daniel
John.Finnigan at csiro.au wrote:
> When using Plot to plot F[x] as a function of x, Mathematica automatically =
> assigns the independent variable x to the horizontal axis and the dependent=
> variable F[x] to the horizontal. I often want to switch this around so th=
> at the independent variable runs on the vertical axis and the dependent on =
> the horizontal. I feel sure there ought to be a simple way to tell Plot to=
> make this change but I have never found it and instead have resorted to co=
> nvoluted approaches. Can anyone tell me what the simple trick is, if it ex=
> ists?
> Thanks
> John Finnigan
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