R help - Dec 2012 - long margin text below lattice plot - how to wrap lines?

Hello,

I've got a lattice plot and need to add text into the bottom margin of the
plotting area (below the bottom legend).
This seems to work in principle using grid.arrange, yet the text to be added is
rather long. As a consequence, it gets clipped:

require(lattice)
require(grid)
myplot <- xyplot(1~1)
mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text that it goes on
forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order for someone to be able to
read it properly.")
grid.arrange(myplot, sub=mytext)

Is there any way to wrap the lines of the text or some other of workaround to
this problem?

I've tried figuring it out myself, but it's a rather urgent problem and
therefore I was hoping to find some help here.

Best,
Irene

Hello

You can insert \n in your text.

mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text\n that it goes on
forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order\n for someone to be 
able to read it properly.")

HTH
Pascal


Le 12/12/2012 16:22, knallgrau at gmx.com a ?crit :
> Hello,
>
> I've got a lattice plot and need to add text into the bottom margin of
the plotting area (below the bottom legend).
> This seems to work in principle using grid.arrange, yet the text to be
added is rather long. As a consequence, it gets clipped:
>
> require(lattice)
> require(grid)
> myplot <- xyplot(1~1)
> mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text that it goes
on forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order for someone to be able to
read it properly.")
> grid.arrange(myplot, sub=mytext)
>
> Is there any way to wrap the lines of the text or some other of workaround
to this problem?
>
> I've tried figuring it out myself, but it's a rather urgent problem
and therefore I was hoping to find some help here.
>
> Best,
> Irene
>
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>

Thanks a million!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pascal Oettli
> Sent: 12/12/12 09:37 AM
> To: knallgrau at gmx.com
> Subject: Re: [R] long margin text below lattice plot - how to wrap lines?
> 
> Hello
> 
> You can insert \n in your text.
> 
> mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text\n that it
goes on
> forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order\n for someone to be 
> able to read it properly.")
> 
> HTH
> Pascal
> 
> 
> Le 12/12/2012 16:22, knallgrau at gmx.com a ?crit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got a lattice plot and need to add text into the bottom
margin of the plotting area (below the bottom legend).
> > This seems to work in principle using grid.arrange, yet the text to be
added is rather long. As a consequence, it gets clipped:
> >
> > require(lattice)
> > require(grid)
> > myplot <- xyplot(1~1)
> > mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text that it
goes on forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order for someone to be
able to read it properly.")
> > grid.arrange(myplot, sub=mytext)
> >
> > Is there any way to wrap the lines of the text or some other of
workaround to this problem?
> >
> > I've tried figuring it out myself, but it's a rather urgent
problem and therefore I was hoping to find some help here.
> >
> > Best,
> > Irene
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >