Message-ID: <509E1620.8010902@bitwrit.com.au>
Date: 2012-11-10T08:53:52Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: Labeling position barchart
In-Reply-To: <1352460787986-4649031.post@n4.nabble.com>
On 11/09/2012 10:33 PM, Geophagus wrote:
> Hi @ all,
> I try to set a labeling on simple barchart.
> I do it with the text function. I want to see values of the x axis
> (BE_AKT$ammo) above the bars.
> When I try the following code, the values are shown, but not in the correct
> position.
> They should be labeled 0.08 above the bars.
>
> text(BE_AKT$ammo, BE_AKT$ammo + 0.08, label = BE_AKT$ammo, family="Calibri")
>
Hi GeO,
At a rough guess, you want the _bottoms_ of the labels 0.08 user units
above the tops of the bars. It is very unlikely that the values of
BE_AKT$ammo (is that the 5.45 or the old 7.62?) will be valid for both x
and y coordinates. What you probably want to do is collect the x
positions from the initial plot:
xpos<-barplot(...)
then combine those with the y positions of your values for BE_AKT$ammo:
text(xpos,BE_AKT$ammo + 0.08,label=BE_AKT$ammo,family="Calibri",pos=3)
Notice that "pos=3" argument. This places the text above the
coordinates. You can also do this with the "adj" argument.
Jim