Francesco, Try cex.axis=0.6
Regards, Andrés AM 2011/10/12, Francesco Sarracino <f.sarrac...@gmail.com>: > Dear R-listers, > > I have a little problem with a boxplot and I hope you can help me figuring > it out. > I'll try to make up some data to illustrate the issue. Sorry, if my > procedures look naive, but these are my first steps in R. Any comments > and/or suggestions are very welcome. > > let's create a vector var1: > var1 <- rnorm(100) > > and 5 five logical vectors. In this case the vectors don't mean anything, I > just need 5 vectors to illustrate my problem. Each of the 5 vectors > identifies a geographic area of my interest. > med <- var1 < -0.7275 > anglo <- var1 > -0.7275 & var1 < -0.09402 > scand <- var1 > -0.09402 > ceast <- var1 < -0.7275 & var1 > -4.10500 > seast <- var1 < 2.5 & var1 > 0.49 > > and let's put all the vectors together in a data frame: > data <- data.frame(anglo, med, scand, seast, ceast, var1) > > I wish to compare the samples of each region with respect to variable var1. > Therefore I run: > > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > var1[seast==1]) > > Let's make the chart clearer and let's add meaningful labels to the x-axis. > Hence, I create a new vector containing a label for each of my 5 dummies: > > vec <- > c("Mediterranean","Anglo-Saxon","Scandinavian","Centre-East","South-East") > > Now the boxplot is: > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > var1[seast==1], names = vec) > > As you can see, some of the labels disappear because of the size of the > chart (I suppose). I tried to solve the problem by changing the orientation > of the labels with the las = 3 option (see below): > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > var1[seast==1], names = vec, las = 3) > > but the problem is not solved: the names are too long and stand partially > out of the figure. > How could I solve this problem? I have been longly google-ing and looking > into reference manuals, but with no success. In Stata a simple way could be > just bending each label by 45 degrees, but it seems boxplot does not allow > such a solution. Furthermore I did not manage to enlarge my figure to place > everything in. > Thanks a lot in advance for all your support. > Best wishes, > f. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.