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combining a log and linear scale in matplotlib

The example here What is the difference between 'log' and 'symlog'? nicely shows how a linear scale at the origin can be used with a log scale elsewhere. I want to go the other way around. I want to have a a log scale from 1-100 and then a linear! scale from 100-1000. What are my options? Like the figure above This attempt did not work

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    plt.figure()
    plt.errorbar(x, y, yerr=yerrors)
    plt.xscale('symlog', linthreshx= (100,1000))

The problem seems to be that linthreshx is defined to take the range (-x,x). So if x if 5 we would get a linear scale on (-5,5). One is confined to the origin. I thought simply choosing a different range should work but it does not. Any ideas?

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user1318806 Avatar asked Feb 13 '14 06:02

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2 Answers

From the response of user1318806 to cphlewis:

Thank you. Actually I wanted a combination of log+linear on the x axis not y. But I assume your code should be easily adaptable.

Hello! If you wanted a combination of log+linear on the x-axis (patterned from the code of Duncan Watts and CubeJockey):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
import numpy as np

# Numbers from -50 to 50, with 0.1 as step
xdomain = np.arange(-50,50, 0.1)

axMain = plt.subplot(111)
axMain.plot(np.sin(xdomain), xdomain)
axMain.set_xscale('linear')
axMain.set_xlim((0.5, 1.5))
axMain.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
axMain.yaxis.set_ticks_position('right')
axMain.yaxis.set_visible(False)


divider = make_axes_locatable(axMain)
axLin = divider.append_axes("left", size=2.0, pad=0, sharey=axMain)
axLin.set_xscale('log')
axLin.set_xlim((0.01, 0.5))
axLin.plot(np.sin(xdomain), xdomain)
axLin.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
axLin.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
plt.setp(axLin.get_xticklabels(), visible=True)

plt.title('Linear right, log left')

The code above yields: Answer1

(MISCELLANEOUS) Here's a very minor fix for the title and the absence of tick marks on the right side:

# Fix for: title + no tick marks on the right side of the plot
ax2 = axLin.twinx()
ax2.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
ax2.tick_params(axis='y',which='both',labelright='off')

Adding these lines will give you this: Answer2

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jcoderepo Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 09:10

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I assume you want linear near the origin, log farther -- since `symlog' does it the other way around -- I couldn't come up with data that looked good like this, but you can put it together with the axes_grid:

# linear and log axes for the same plot?
# starting with the histogram example from 
# http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import make_axes_locatable
import numpy as np

# Numbers from -50 to 50, with 0.1 as step
xdomain = np.arange(-50,50, 0.1)

axMain = plt.subplot(111)
axMain.plot(xdomain, np.sin(xdomain))
axMain.set_yscale('log')
axMain.set_ylim((0.01, 0.5))
divider = make_axes_locatable(axMain)
axLin = divider.append_axes("top", size=2.0, pad=0.02, sharex=axMain)
axLin.plot(xdomain, np.sin(xdomain))

axLin.set_xscale('linear')
axLin.set_ylim((0.5, 1.5))
plt.title('Linear above, log below')

plt.show()

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cphlewis Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 09:10

cphlewis