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Re: Display BarChart ticks in AccountingForm?

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• Subject: [mg121001] Re: Display BarChart ticks in AccountingForm?
• From: Brett Champion <brettc at wolfram.com>
• Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:32:11 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 20, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Porscha Louise McRobbie wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a BarChart with large y-values:
>
> BarChart[{1 10^13, 2 10^13, 3 10^13}, ChartLabels -> {"a", "b", "c"},
>  Ticks -> {None, {1 10^13, 2 10^13, 3 10^13}}]
>
> I do not want the y-axis tick marks to display in scientific notation. 
> How can I get the tick marks to display using AccountingForm?  The 
> following does not seem to work:
>
> BarChart[{1 10^13, 2 10^13, 3 10^13}, ChartLabels -> {"a", "b", "c"},
>  Ticks -> {None,
>    AccountingForm[#, DigitBlock -> 3] & /@ {1 10^13, 2 10^13,
>      3 10^13}}]

You need to say where to put the ticks, as well as how they should be formatted:

BarChart[{1 10^13, 2 10^13, 3 10^13}, ChartLabels -> {"a", "b", "c"},
 Ticks -> {None, {#,
      AccountingForm[#, DigitBlock -> 3]} & /@ {1 10^13, 2 10^13,
     3 10^13}}]

Brett Champion
Wolfram Research

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  • Display BarChart ticks in AccountingForm?
    • From: Porscha Louise McRobbie <pmcrobbi@umich.edu>