Labelling logarithmic scale display in R

Question

While plotting histogarm, scatterplots and other plots with axes scaled to logarithmic scale in R, how is it possible to use labels such as 10^-1 10^0 10^1 10^2 10^3 and so

Answer 1

Here is a different way to draw this type of axis:

plot(NA, xlim=c(0,10), ylim=c(1, 10^4), xlab="x", ylab="y", log="y", yaxt="n")
at.y <- outer(1:9, 10^(0:4))
lab.y <- ifelse(log10(at.y) %% 1 == 0, at.y, NA)
axis(2, at=at.y, labels=lab.y, las=1)

EDIT: This is also solved in latticeExtra with scale.components