barplot: width of label
On Dec 19, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Peter Ehlers wrote:
On 2010-12-19 07:13, fransiepansiekevertje wrote:
Hello,
I try to make barplots with rather wide labels. A simplified
example of
this:
x<- c(12, 33, 56, 67, 15, 66)
names(x)<- c('Richard with a long surname','Minnie with a long
name,'Albert','Helen','Joe','Kingston')
^
barplot(x, las = 2)
Anyone pasting this code should insert the missing single-quote.
Now the label 'Richard with a long surname' is too long to fit beneath the bars. A simple solution would be enlarge the space for the labels by positioning the bar region higher. But I cannot find how to do this. Please Help!
Try par(mar = c(12,4,4,2)) before calling barplot(). But a better solution (still requiring a resetting of the default margins) would be to plot horizontally. Admittedly, this would provide less neck exercise for the reader.
Another option is to insert \n's.
x <- c(12, 33, 56, 67, 15, 66)
names(x) <- c('Richard\n with a\n long \nsurname','Minnie\nwith a
\nlong \n name','Albert','Helen','Joe','Kingston')
barplot(x)
And yet another option, somewhat more complex, would be to construct
an x- axis with slanting labels. (Several worked examples posting in
the archives.)
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