On 2010-09-21 8:23, Ivan Calandra wrote:
Dear users,I would like all the ticks on a boxplot (x and y) to be labeled I have checked all the par() arguments but couldn't find what I'm looking for Here is an example to show it: df<- structure(list(SPECSHOR = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 4L, 4L), .Label = c("cotau", "dibic", "eqgre", "gicam"), class = "factor"), Sq122.median = c(2.335835, 1.76091, 1.64717, 1.285505, 1.572405, 1.86761, 1.82541, 1.62458, 0.157813, 0.864523)), .Names = c("SPECSHOR", "Sq122.median"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(9L, 16L, 23L, 74L, 83L, 90L, 98L, 109L, 121L, 139L)) par(mfrow=c(2,2)) ## not necessary in that example, but I do need it with my real data boxplot(Sq122.median~SPECSHOR, data=df, horizontal=TRUE) ## the upper label on the y-axis (gicam) is not shown I know I can decrease the size of the labels by setting cex.axis=0.8, but I would prefer that all labels are always there, independent of their size, without me setting their size explicitly, and even if they then overlap. Am I clear? Is it possible, and how? Thanks in advance Ivan
Two suggestions: 1) use staxlab() in the plotrix package (but the staggered labels might look a bit strange if you have short labels). library(plotrix) boxplot(Sq122.median~SPECSHOR, data=df, horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE) box(); axis(1) staxlab(side=2, at=1:4, lab=levels(df$SPECSHOR), cex=.8) 2) use mtext() to control your labelling. boxplot(Sq122.median~SPECSHOR, data=df, horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE) box(); axis(1) axis(2, at=1:4, lab=NA) mtext(levels(df$SPECSHOR), side=2, at=1:4, line=1, cex=0.8) -Peter Ehlers ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
