Using the second y-axis

Short summary: Consider all the series you want on the right-side axis. Choose one as (for lack of a better term) the master series. For that series, add the option axis : {}. For the others, use axis : 'T', replacing T with the master series' name. Yes, we know this is confusing, and we have some ideas for fixing it.

Update: The behavior for specifying a second y-axis has been simplified. See this recent post.

One of the nice new features Dan added to Dygraphs was the ability to use a second y-axis. Unfortunately, we all agree the mechanism to specify using the second y-axis is a little confusing, so this post ought to make things easier to understand.

Take note, though, that we're working out a proposal to make using the second y-axis easier to understand, so please feel free to read and comment as you see fit. (Once we simplify the API for using the second y-axis, this post will be obsolete, but hopefully it'll be replaced by another one. (Remind me to add references to this post when that time comes.))

Demonstration: Here's a graph with three series (named R, S and T), all on the left-side y-axis.

To move one of the series to the right-side y-axis, you need to add an option for the series. For instance, let's move series T to the right-side:

T : {
  axis : { }
}

The short explanation of what this means is that it instructs Dygraphs to create a new axis, and assign T to it.

Which looks like this:

You might think that if you wanted to add S to the right axis you would add

S : {
  axis : { }
}

but if you did, you would get this error:

dygraphs: Only two y-axes are supported at this time. (Trying to use 3) (axes.js:65:7) 

Yeah, confusing. Instead, what you do is:

S : {
  axis : 'T'
}

This says that whatever axis T is on, put S there too.

Here's what it looks like: