On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I remarked that the function
> ## Default S3 method:
> text (x, y = NULL, labels = seq(along = x), adj = NULL,pos = NULL, offset =
> 0.5, vfont = NULL,cex = 1, col = NULL, font = NULL, ...)
>
> accepts vectors of arguments (of the same length) except for the
> parameter adj.
Not true, e.g. for vfont.
> When passing a vector of information for adjusting the labels, only the
> first value is taken.
You mean supplying a vector value of length > 1 for 'adj', I guess.
> Any special reason for this ?
Yes, please DO read the help page:
adj: one or two values in [0,1] which specify the x (and
optionally y) adjustment of the labels. On most devices
values outside that interval will also work.
Note, 'one or two'.
> btw: could a rotating argument like the 'srt' argument in mtext() be
> incorporated ?
Yes, *parameter* 'srt' works exactly as in mtext: see the '...' part of
the help page.
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