How to Specify Tick Number and Distance in Mathematica Plot?

[iva_bg]

Hello,

does anyone know how to specify the number of ticks to be labelled in a plot at an equal distance, without writing the list of positions explicitly?

Thanks!

 

[Bill Simpson]

Ticks -> {Range[-1, 5, 2], Automatic}

will label every other integer between -1 and 5 on the x-axis and auto label the y axis. Modify this as necessary for your application.

 

[iva_bg]

Nothing happens... Do you know if that works with DateListPlot?

 

[Bill Simpson]

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/DateListPlot.html

Then click on Options then click on Ticks

and you see that DateListPlot Ticks requires "tick values" in the form
Ticks->{{{2007,4,12},{2008,4,18}},Automatic}
So you either enter a list like this for your desired "tick values" or you craft up a function to generate the tick values you want.