[R] Truncated x-axis values

[John Kane]

Also think aboutpar( cex.axis = something small)

Depending on what you're doing you might want to
consider usin horizontal=TRUE  and reduce the plot
size a bit to accomomodate the label lengths.

I don't know the packages well enough to be sure but I
suspect that lattice or ggplot may handle this problem
by allowing an angled label

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

> You can try playing around with oma, omi, mai, mar,
> etc. in par():
> 
> myMai <- par("mai")
> myMai[1] <- max(nchar(y))*par("cin")[1]
> par(mfrow=c(2, 1),mai=myMai,oma=rep(0,4),las = 2)
> # your plot
> 
> --- "Urban, Alexander" <a-urban at ti.com> wrote:
> 
> > John
> > Thanks for your reply and sorry for not beein
> specific enough
> > Try this piece of code (it's an abstraction of my
> application...)
> > 
> > par(las = 2)
> > par(mfrow=c(2, 1))
> > x =  c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)
> > y = c("abcdccefghijk", "bcssdefghijkl",
> "abddessfghijk",
> >
>
"bddessfghijkl","abcdssedghijk","bcdedghijkl","assbcdefghidk","bcdedssgh
> > ijkl")
> > 
> > boxplot(x~y)
> > boxplot(x~y) 
> > 
> > In the lower chart the labels are truncated...(not
> totally visible)
> > Is this clearer now?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Alex
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Kane [mailto:jrkrideau at yahoo.ca] 
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 19:19
> > To: Urban, Alexander; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] Truncated x-axis values
> > 
> > You really have not told us much about what you're
> actually doing.  A
> > simple self-contained example of what you're
> trying to do might let
> > someone help. 
> > 
> > Have you read the posting guide?
> > 
> > --- "Urban, Alexander" <a-urban at ti.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello
> > > 
> > > I'm new to this group. I looked up the last two
> hour in the help file 
> > > and in the archives of this group, but didn't
> find anything.
> > > I hope my question is not too dump:
> > > I'm printing a graph with vertical labels on the
> x-axis (necessary due
> > 
> > > to many labels). Unfortunately the png truncates
> the labels halfway 
> > > through, so that you can only read the last 7
> digits of the label.
> > > Snice I'm already asking :-): Is there a
> possibility to tell R: If 
> > > there are so many labels that you write them on
> top of each other, 
> > > take only e.g. every 2nd...
> > > 
> > > Sorry for bothering and thanks
> > > Alex
> > > 
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