overlaid plots using different axes in R - r

I am trying to overlay two graphs onto the same axes. I set up my axes limits and labels first, but then when I plot the graphs they resize and are not on my pre-determined scale.
I have pared my code down into a simple example. You can see that 100 and 10 are showing up at the same place on the y axis. Please help!
x<- 1:3
y1<- c(100, 75, 20)
y2<- c(10, 9, 4)
plot.new()
plot(0, type="n",
xlim=c(1,max(x)), ylim=c(0,max(y1,y2)),
xlab= "x label", ylab= "y label", main= "This stupid graph doesn't work!")
par(new=TRUE)
par(new=TRUE)
plot(x,y1, type="b", pch=19, col="orchid",
axes=FALSE, ann=FALSE)
par(new=TRUE)
plot(x,y2, type="b", pch=19, col="slateblue",
axes=FALSE, ann=FALSE)
legend("topright",c("This is","Annoying"), col=c("orchid","slateblue"), pch=19)

You want to use lines to add the second line, meanwhile making sure that ylim allows for all the values being plotted to fit within the plotting region.
plot(y1 ~ x, ylim = range(c(y1, y2)), xlab = "x label", ylab = "y label",
main = "This one might work!", type = 'b', pch = 19, col = "orchid")
lines(y2, type = 'b', pch = 19, col = 'slateblue')
legend("topright", c("R is", "awesome"), col = c("orchid","slateblue"), pch = 19)

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This is my result
https://i.stack.imgur.com/umCWu.png
I want to have a y axis like ylim = c (-0.10,1.5) and adjust the scale (h curb is way too big with this scale ..)
OR two y axes like here, but align on 0 with the same scale.
I tried to change the criteria of my axes but they seem to adjust automatically to make sense with the minimum and maximum of my data. I want to have one y axis as ylim = c(-0.10,1.5) and adjust scale (h courb is way too large with this actual scale..)
Can someone help me ?
Thank you very much

Linear function axis scaling in R

I have the following function
C=15
S=seq(0,12,.1)
pA=1
pS=0.5
A <- function(S) (C/pA)-(pA/pS)*S
plot (S, A(S), type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,15), xlim=c(0,15), xlab="S", ylab="A")
text(8, 11.5, "Function", col = "red", cex=.9)
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How can I scale the axis so that I can "zoom out" a bit. I am looking for a function similar to ylim but where I could say: ylim=c(0,15, by=1).
Update
It seems your "zoom out" is meant for the grid lines, not for the axis or anything. I'll keep the previous answer below, but this should address it, I think.
# no change yet
plot (S, A(S), type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,15), xlim=c(0,15), xlab="S", ylab="A")
text(8, 11.5, "Function", col = "red", cex=.9)
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abline(v = seq(0, 15, by = 5), col = "lightgray", lty = "dotted", lwd = par("lwd"))
You can do just abline(h=seq(...)) and not set col=, lty=, or lwd=, but realize that abline's default values are different from grid's defaults. I used those values to mimic grid's look and feel.
Old answer
I think you mean to change the y axis labels, not the y axis limits (which is all that ylim= can effect).
Using base R graphics:
plot (S, A(S), type="l", col="red", ylim=c(0,15), xlim=c(0,15), xlab="S", ylab="A",
yaxt = "n") # this is new
text(8, 11.5, "Function", col = "red", cex=.9)
text(11, 10.2, expression(A==frac(C,p[S])-frac(p[A],p[S])%.%S), cex=.9, col = "red")
grid()
axis(2, at = 1:15, las = 2)
Explanation:
plot(..., yaxt = "n") means to not plot the y-axis ticks and labels, see ?par.
axis(...) adds an axis to a side. By itself, it will just add a default axis.
at= sets where the ticks and labels are placed.
labels= sets what to put at each tick. If absent (like it is above), it just prints the at value.
las=2 rotates the number so that it is perpendicular to the axis line. I did this to show more of the numbers, otherwise they will mask a bit more.
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Find one variant
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try
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I am trying to create a plot that shows two different time scales on the x-axis. The problem is that the two time scales have a complicated relationship.
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Here's the little dataframe I have been using where the time units are matched up by predicting:
cobs10.txt. "gdd" is thermal units
EDIT: Here is some new code that doesn't use par(new=TRUE):
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Thanks in advance for any help given.
Holly
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x1<-Min
x2<-Max
y1<-Depth
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box()
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