On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > R User R User wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> I'm evaluating R for basic data exploration. I produce a bar plot of the >> data, with the x axis labels aligned vertically. However, the start of >> labels longer than about 10 characters are cut off by the bottom of the >> graphics window. >>
Been there, did that :) Run these steps. Run the par with various values to change margins. The size of the figure is fixed from the outside edges, so when you make the margin bigger, the drawing gets squeezed. x <- rpois(14, lambda=10) mynames <- c("Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name","Really Long Name Long Long") barplot(x, names=mynames, las=2) ## RSiteSearch("barplot names margins") barplot(x, names=abbreviate(mynames), las=2) par(mar=c(9.5,3,0.5, 0.3)) barplot(x, names=mynames, las=2) ## believe should be same as following, but the following works ## to change the margin only once, and further calls ## to similar have no margin changing effect. So ## you need run par over again before boxplotting. barplot(x, names=mynames, las=2, mar=c(9.5,3,0.5, 0.3)) -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ______________________________________________ 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.