Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:janpsmit at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:15 PM
To: Mulholland, Tom
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)


Dear Tom,

Many thanks. I think this gets me in the right direction, but 
concatenates all levels into one long level. Any further thoughts?

Best regards,

Jan


Mulholland, Tom wrote:

This may not be the best way but in the past I think I have 

done something like

levels(x) <- paste(strwrap(levels(x),20,prefix = 

""),collapse = "\n")

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:janpsmit at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:48 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)


I am using barplot, and barplot2 in the gregmisc bundle, in the 
following way:

barplot2(sort(xtabs(expend / 1000 ~ theme)),
    col = c(mdg7, mdg8, mdg3, mdg1), horiz = T, las = 1,
    xlab = "$ '000", plot.grid = T)

The problem is that the values of 'theme', which is a 

factor, are in 

some cases rather long, so that I would like to wrap/split 

them at a 

space once they exceed, say, 20 characters. What I'm doing now is 
specifying names.arg manually with '\n' where I want the 
breaks, but I 
would like to automate the process.

I've looked for a solution using 'strwrap', but am not sure 
how to apply 
it in this situation.

Jan Smit

Consultant
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific