A similar solution is to create a pdf: pdf(file="AwesomeTree.pdf", width=10, height=10) plot(phy) dev.off()
As you increase the width and height, the labels become proportionally smaller. You can probably mess around with cex options, too, but this is the approach I normally use. Best, Brian _______________________________________________________________________ Brian O'Meara, http://www.brianomeara.info, especially Calendar <http://brianomeara.info/calendars/omeara/>, CV <http://brianomeara.info/cv/>, and Feedback <http://brianomeara.info/teaching/feedback/> Associate Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UT Knoxville Associate Head, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UT Knoxville Associate Director for Postdoctoral Activities, National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis <http://www.nimbios.org> (NIMBioS) Communication Director, Society of Systematic Biologists On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:25 AM, Vojtěch Zeisek <vo...@trapa.cz> wrote: > Hello, > if onlythe readibility of the labels is the issue, what about using svg() > function? It produces a SVG file which You can open in almost any vector > editor (like Inkscape) andmove the labels around. Chech ?svg for possible > settings and play with them little bit. They vary among operating systems. > So You can do something like > svg(...) # Any parameters inside, at least output file name > # All the tree ploting commands... > dev.off() # To save the SVG file to the disc > Check also parameters of function tip.labels() - You can specify font size > or replace the text with some symbol. > (Sorry for being so brief, I don't have exact examples handy) > Yours, > V. > > > 31. srpna 2016 11:11:33 CEST, "Bhuller, Ravneet" < > ravneet.bhulle...@imperial.ac.uk> napsal: > >Dear All, > > > >I am trying to construct a phylogenetic tree (neighbour joining) using > >either APE or PHANGORN in R. But, since I have got 220 strains of > >bacteria in my data, the resulted tree is not very clear. The branch > >labels are so much overlapping that they cannot be read at all. Is > >there any way, I can get a neat tree with clearly read labels? Any > >guidance will be very much appreciated. > > > >Regards, > > > >Rav > -- > Vojtěch Zeisek > http://trapa.cz/cs > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r- > sig-ph...@r-project.org/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
