Following some of the basic advice in these links can save a lot of time and
make answering questions much easier.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example
and http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Reproducibility.html
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help at r-project.org
> Sent: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 07:56:40 +0000 (UTC)
> To: drjimlemon at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] [FORGED] change text size on a graphics
>
> Hi,I use hist.
> If I usehist.result = hist(c(14,20,9,31,17), plot = F)plot(hist.result,
> labels = T, cex = 2)
> #doesn't increase the font size of all text on the plot: axis
annotation,
> axis labels, count labels on top of the bars
>
> plot(hist.result, labels = T, cex.axis = 2, cex.label = 2, cex.main = 2)
> # how to increase the size of count labels that are displayed on the top
> of the bars by labels = T?
> Regards,
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:45 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Carol,
> If you are using the "barlabels" function in the plotrix package,
just
> add the usual "cex" argument to the call. Using the first example
in
> the help page:
>
> heights<-c(14,20,9,31,17)
> barpos<-barplot(heights,main="A redundant bar plot")
> barlabels(barpos,heights+1,prop=1,cex=1.5)
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at
auckland.ac.nz>
> wrote:
>> On 21/07/15 08:24, carol white via R-help wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,How is it possible to increase the size of a histogram labels
>>> (displayed on the top of the bars)? I thought that if I use cex
> 1,
>>> it will increase all text size on a plot (axis labels, axis
>>> annotation, title of the graphics and histogram labels) which I
want
>>> but it doesn't.
>>
>>
>> ***What*** labels "displayed on the top of the bars"???? I
don't see any
>> such labels when I plot a histogram.
>>
>> Reproducible example?
>>
>> And please don't post in HTML.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
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