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How to Set the Axis Increments When Using a Scatter

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This article describes how to set the increments for gridlines in a scatterplot or bubble chart. For example, you can override the default axis gap below:

scatter lots lines.png

to a different value i.e. 10 on the y-axis and 15 on the x-axis:

new axis scatter.png

Requirements

Method

  1. Select the visualization.
  2. Temporarily uncheck Calculate automatically in Properties 26UI_ObjectInspector.png while making this edit (if the scale is wrong, it can cause the visualization to become very slow).
  3. In Properties 26UI_ObjectInspector.png, click Data > Attributes > Code button.
  4. In the Code 26UI_CodeEditor.png panel, click Show.
  5. In the code 26UI_CodeEditor.png panel, scroll to the very bottom and insert the following code on the second-to-last line to adjust the x (x.tick.distance) and y (y.tick.distance) axis increments:
background.fill.color = get0("formBgColor", ifnotfound = "transparent"),
background.fill.opacity = get0("formBgOpacity", ifnotfound = 1.0),
append.data = TRUE,
x.tick.distance = 15,
y.tick.distance = 10,
warn.if.no.match = FALSE)

6. Click Yes in the pop-up that appears and asks if you're sure you want to edit the R code.

7. Adjust the increments to the numbers you desire. Note for scales that are on percentages, you will need to use decimal values, i.e. .10 for 10% increments.

8. Tick Calculate automatically to recalculate and restore the automatic recalculations.

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