How to rotate axis labels? 2009 - R-help

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 8:53 AM #

Hi,

while searching for a solution i found many solutions in the internet.
But the postings seemed to be many years old and the workaround was a
dirty hack like this:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-create-rotated-axis-labels_003f

Now its the year 2009 and there might have been some improvement...
Does anyone know a nice and easy way to turn labels on the y axis in the
same direction as the x labels?

Thank you very much for reading and hints,

Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>

Uwe Ligges

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 9:08 AM #

Jonas Stein wrote:

This has always been documented in ?par:

plot(1:10, las=1)


Uwe Ligges

Usuario R

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 9:13 AM #

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Ben Bolker

Thu, Mar 26, 2009 9:25 AM #

Usuario R <r.user.spain <at> gmail.com> writes:

To clarify: if you just want labels rotated parallel/perpendicular
to axes, then par("las") will do everything you need.  If you need
arbitrary rotation (e.g. 45 degrees), then as far as I know the
hack in the FAQ is still the appropriate solution.   

  Ben Bolker