R help - Feb 2011 - Line spacing in graphics

Hi all,

tried to google but found nothing, so here goes the question: is there
a way to control line spacing when displaying text in graphical mode
(for example, using text())?

As an example, run the following code:

plot(c(0,1), c(0,1), type = "n", axes = FALSE, xlab = "",
ylab = "")
text(0.5, 0.5, "Line 1\nLine 2", cex = 3)

Is there a way to control the line spacing between the text lines
"Line 1" and "Line 2" in the resulting plot?

Thanks!

Peter

Peter,

Try par()$lheight

The catch is, you need to set it *before* the call to text()

par(lheight=.8) # closer together
text(x, y, "whatever\nsecondline")

The best place to find options like lheight is in ?par

Sarah

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Peter Langfelder
<peter.langfelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> tried to google but found nothing, so here goes the question: is there
> a way to control line spacing when displaying text in graphical mode
> (for example, using text())?
>
> As an example, run the following code:
>
> plot(c(0,1), c(0,1), type = "n", axes = FALSE, xlab =
"", ylab = "")
> text(0.5, 0.5, "Line 1\nLine 2", cex = 3)
>
> Is there a way to control the line spacing between the text lines
> "Line 1" and "Line 2" in the resulting plot?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter
>

-- 
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Try par()$lheight
>
> The catch is, you need to set it *before* the call to text()
>
> par(lheight=.8) # closer together
> text(x, y, "whatever\nsecondline")
>
> The best place to find options like lheight is in ?par
Thanks - I had looked at ?par but missed it :)

Peter