R help - Mar 2010 - boxplot, vertical position of x-axis labels

hello,

i can't figure out how to change the vertical position of my x axis labels..

boxplot(c(1:12)~c(rep("1",6),rep("2",6)),at=c(1,2),
col=c(0,"grey"),las=1,xaxt="n")

### i put paragraphs in the x-labels because of limited horizontal space

axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1,labels=c("Salix
Scrub","Tall
Forb"))

...the labels are one line above usual position and cross the tickmarks and
i don't know how to get around this.

can anyone help with this?
thanks in advance. 

kay
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On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Kay Cichini wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i can't figure out how to change the vertical position of my x axis  
> labels..
>
> boxplot(c(1:12)~c(rep("1",6),rep("2",6)),at=c(1,2),
> col=c(0,"grey"),las=1,xaxt="n")
>
> ### i put paragraphs in the x-labels because of limited horizontal  
> space
>
?axis

Try using the padj argument (and it bothered me to use the <cr>'s  
rather than "\n", so I modified the labels argument as well):

axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1,padj=0.5,labels=c("Salix\nScrub","Tall\nForb"))
>
>
> ...the labels are one line above usual position and cross the  
> tickmarks and
> i don't know how to get around this.
>
> can anyone help with this?
> thanks in advance.
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

Hi

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 16.03.2010 14:37:01:
> 
> hello,
> 
> i can't figure out how to change the vertical position of my x axis 
labels..
> 
> boxplot(c(1:12)~c(rep("1",6),rep("2",6)),at=c(1,2),
> col=c(0,"grey"),las=1,xaxt="n")
> 
> ### i put paragraphs in the x-labels because of limited horizontal space
> 
> axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1,labels=c("Salix
> Scrub","Tall
> Forb"))
> 
> ...the labels are one line above usual position and cross the tickmarks 
and
> i don't know how to get around this.
> 
Not sure if it is the only way but

# first put only labels
axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1, tick=F, line=2,labels=c("Salix 
Scrub","Tall 
Forb"))

# add axis without labels
axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1, tick=T,labels=c(NA, NA))

Regards
Petr

> can anyone help with this?
> thanks in advance. 
> 
> kay
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thanks a lot!

both ways work.

greetings - 
kay
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