On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Murray Pung wrote:

> If the variable names are too long to allow room for each to be displayed on 
> a barplot, how can the direction of the text be changed?
>
> a <- cbind(2.4,2.4,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.9,2.9,2.9)
> b <- cbind(2.3,2.5,2.4,2.2,3.2,2.4,2.9,2.6,2.9,3.0,2.8)
> h <- rbind(a,b)
> colnames(h) <- 
> c("one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine","ten","eleven")
> rownames(h) <- c("Pre-stage","Post-stage")
> barplot(h, beside = T, legend = colnames(g), horiz = T, xlim = c(0, 5))
>
>

barplot(h, beside = T, legend = colnames(h), horiz = T, xlim = c(0, 5),
         las=1)

will do it.

Note: colnames(h) not colnames(g)


David Scott


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