[R] long margin text below lattice plot - how to wrap lines?

[Irene Prix]

Thanks a million!

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pascal Oettli
> Sent: 12/12/12 09:37 AM
> To: knallgrau at gmx.com
> Subject: Re: [R] long margin text below lattice plot - how to wrap lines?
> 
> Hello
> 
> You can insert \n in your text.
> 
> mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text\n that it goes on 
> forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order\n for someone to be 
> able to read it properly.")
> 
> HTH
> Pascal
> 
> 
> Le 12/12/2012 16:22, knallgrau at gmx.com a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've got a lattice plot and need to add text into the bottom margin of the plotting area (below the bottom legend).
> > This seems to work in principle using grid.arrange, yet the text to be added is rather long. As a consequence, it gets clipped:
> >
> > require(lattice)
> > require(grid)
> > myplot <- xyplot(1~1)
> > mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text that it goes on forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order for someone to be able to read it properly.")
> > grid.arrange(myplot, sub=mytext)
> >
> > Is there any way to wrap the lines of the text or some other of workaround to this problem?
> >
> > I've tried figuring it out myself, but it's a rather urgent problem and therefore I was hoping to find some help here.
> >
> > Best,
> > Irene
> >
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