R help - Feb 2003 - how to turn axis labels for trellis/dotplot

hi,

it occurs quite naturally that groupnames have so many characters that
they overlap as horizontally printed labels for the xaxis in a
dotplot. is it possible to turn ('par(las=1)') the (x)axis-labels in a
dotplot? in general, is it possible to add new customization themes to
trellis.get()?

any solution is very welcome!

tomy


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On Friday 21 February 2003 08:02 am, Thomas Gerds wrote:
> hi,
>
> it occurs quite naturally that groupnames have so many characters that
> they overlap as horizontally printed labels for the xaxis in a
> dotplot. is it possible to turn ('par(las=1)') the (x)axis-labels
in a
> dotplot? 
See the 'scales' argument in ?xyplot. What you need is 'rot',
for example,

xyplot(...,
       scales = list(x = list(rot = 90)))

('abbreviate' might help as well, depending on your situation)
> in general, is it possible to add new customization themes to
> trellis.get()?
See ?lset

Not everything can be controlled by the settings though. 

Deepayan