To change the default tick marks for the axis of an interval variable:
Open the Hurricanes
data set, and create a scatter plot of wind_kts
versus latitude
.
The scatter plot appears. (See Figure 10.1.) Note that the latitude
axis has only a few tick marks. You might decide to add a few additional tick marks.
Right-click the horizontal axis of the plot, and select Figure 10.2.
from the pop-up menu, as shown in
The Axis Properties dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 10.3. This is a quick way to determine the anchor location, tick unit, and tick range for an axis.
Change the Major tick unit value to 10
.
Change the Anchor tick value to 0
.
Change the Number of minor ticks value to 1
.
Click
.The latitude
axis updates, as shown in Figure 10.4.