[R] queries

Stephen Tucker brown_emu at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 22 22:44:39 CEST 2007


My apologies. Second line should be
title(main="Histogram of ...",cex.main=0.5)

Actually I just realized you can also do 
hist(rnorm(100),xlab="Data",ylab="Count",cex.main=0.5)

...this way you don't have to call title() separately.


--- Stephen Tucker <brown_emu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hist(rnorm(100),xlab="Data",ylab="Count",main="")
> title(main="Histogram of ...",cex=0.5)
> 
> see ?par for details on xlab, ylab, main, and cex arguments.
> You can call these from title() or include them in hist().
> I called title(main=..) separately to control its size separately
> from the rest of the text (axis and tick labels).
> 
> 
> 
> --- Nima Tehrani <nisate at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Help Desk,
> >    
> >   Is there any way to change some of the labels on R diagrams? 
> >    
> >   Specifically in histograms, I would like to: 
> >    
> >   1.             change the word frequency to count. 
> >   2.             Make the font of the title (Histogram of 
) smaller.
> >   3.             Have a different word below the histogram than the one
> > occurring in the title (right now if you choose X for your variable, it
> > comes both above the histogram (in the phrase Histogram of X) and below
> > it).
> >    
> >   Thanks for your time,
> >   Nima
> > 
> >        
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