R help - Jan 2008 - Orientation of labels on axes

http://www.nabble.com/file/p14664173/at-modality.png 


I created the above image with R and I have one problem left:

Some of the labels of the axes do not show up, probably because there's not
enough space.


I use the following code to create the plot:
modality <- read.table("results.table", header=TRUE,
sep=",")
color <-
c("red3","green3","blue3","orange2","purple2","brown4")
plot(modality, col=color)
>From the manual I though one of the following might help:
> plot(length, col=color, las=1)
> plot(length, col=color, las=2)
> plot(length, col=color, las=0)
This is supposed to change the orientation of the axis lables, I guess. But
it doesn't change the output a bit.

Does anyone know what to do?
(I am happy with almost any solution that makes the missing labels appear:
smaller fonts, rotating the labels etc.)

Cheers,
Michael


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Hi Michael,

a solution would be not to draw axes directly, but afterwards with the
axis-command:

plot(length, col=color, axes=F)
axis(2,at=<your_positions>, labels=<your_labels>, cex.axis=0.6,
las=1);
# left axis
axis(1,at=<your_positions>, labels=<your_labels>, cex.axis=0.6,
las=1);
# bottom axis

cex.axis...relativefont size
las...text orientation

see ?axis for further settings

cheers,
Albert

Am Montag, den 07.01.2008, 03:52 -0800 schrieb mika03:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14664173/at-modality.png 
> 
> 
> I created the above image with R and I have one problem left:
> 
> Some of the labels of the axes do not show up, probably because there's
not
> enough space.
> 
> 
> I use the following code to create the plot:
> modality <- read.table("results.table", header=TRUE,
sep=",")
> color <-
c("red3","green3","blue3","orange2","purple2","brown4")
> plot(modality, col=color)
> 
> >From the manual I though one of the following might help:
> > plot(length, col=color, las=1)
> > plot(length, col=color, las=2)
> > plot(length, col=color, las=0)
> 
> This is supposed to change the orientation of the axis lables, I guess. But
> it doesn't change the output a bit.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do?
> (I am happy with almost any solution that makes the missing labels appear:
> smaller fonts, rotating the labels etc.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
>

> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14664173/at-modality.png 
> 
> 
> I created the above image with R and I have one problem left:
> 
> Some of the labels of the axes do not show up, probably because there's
not
> enough space.
Try 
par(las=1)
then draw the plot
plot(length, col=colour)

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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Have a look at ?staxlab library(plotrix)or
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-create-rotated-axis-labels_003f


--- mika03 <someone29_7 at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14664173/at-modality.png
> 
> 
> 
> I created the above image with R and I have one
> problem left:
> 
> Some of the labels of the axes do not show up,
> probably because there's not
> enough space.
> 
> 
> I use the following code to create the plot:
> modality <- read.table("results.table", header=TRUE,
> sep=",")
> color <-
>
c("red3","green3","blue3","orange2","purple2","brown4")
> plot(modality, col=color)
> 
> >From the manual I though one of the following might
> help:
> > plot(length, col=color, las=1)
> > plot(length, col=color, las=2)
> > plot(length, col=color, las=0)
> 
> This is supposed to change the orientation of the
> axis lables, I guess. But
> it doesn't change the output a bit.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do?
> (I am happy with almost any solution that makes the
> missing labels appear:
> smaller fonts, rotating the labels etc.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
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mika03 wrote:
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14664173/at-modality.png 
> 
> 
> I created the above image with R and I have one problem left:
> 
> Some of the labels of the axes do not show up, probably because there's
not
> enough space.
> 
> 
> I use the following code to create the plot:
> modality <- read.table("results.table", header=TRUE,
sep=",")
> color <-
c("red3","green3","blue3","orange2","purple2","brown4")
> plot(modality, col=color)
> 
>>From the manual I though one of the following might help:
> 
>>plot(length, col=color, las=1)
>>plot(length, col=color, las=2)
>>plot(length, col=color, las=0)
> 
> 
> This is supposed to change the orientation of the axis lables, I guess. But
> it doesn't change the output a bit.
> 
> Does anyone know what to do?
> (I am happy with almost any solution that makes the missing labels appear:
> smaller fonts, rotating the labels etc.)
> 
Hi Michael,
If you're having trouble with labels fitting on an axis, look at the 
staxlab function in the plotrix package.

Jim