Message-ID: <475813F5.6000902@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2007-12-06T15:23:33Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Vertical text in a plot
In-Reply-To: <5c79da7a0712060716j3bfabdd7v7bad975de9c1b953@mail.gmail.com>
Marcin Kozak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Consider this simple plot:
>
>> plot(1:25,runif(25,0,1),ylab="First Y-axis label",xaxt="n")
>>
>
> I want to add an additional axis as
>
>> axis(4,at=seq(0.2,1,.2), labels=1:5)
>>
>
> I have no idea how to add now the title of the new axis as "Second
> Y-axis label". I want this text to be vertically directed from bottom
> to top. I can't find the function in text() to write vertically. Any
> ideas?
>
>
mtext() is your friend....
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