Re: Switching x and y axes in a plot
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- Subject: [mg41557] Re: Switching x and y axes in a plot
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 05:46:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
a) exchange the x- and y-axes
gr = Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2Pi}, DisplayFunction -> Identity];
Show[gr /. Line[a_] :> Line [Reverse /@ a],
DisplayFunction -> $DisplayFunction]
b) look what ListPlot[] can do for you.
Regards
Jens
Gregory Lypny wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm new to Mathematica, so I hope you'll forgive my first couple of
> naive questions.
>
> I've used Plot to graph a parabola as follows: Plot[ax^2 - 2bx + c,
> {x, xMin, xMax}]. Is there any way to plot the function so that y
> appears on the horizontal axis and x on the vertical? (I realize the
> parabola part is uninteresting; it's actually the solution to a
> standard problem in financial economics involving the minimization of
> investment portfolio risk for a given expected return.)
>
> Another plot-related question, if I may: do all plots require the
> specification of a domain as {x, xMin, xMax}? For example, how would I
> create a scatter plot of experimental data where I have a long
> two-column list or matrix consisting of x and y observations where the
> data determine the domain and range?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gregory
>
> Gregory Lypny
> Associate Professor
> Concordia University
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