Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Patrick Burns wrote: Basically the only thing in the thread that was clear to me was Brian's phrasing. So I'd suggest basing any changes on that. I'll add some words. There is one other thing which needs explaining, what 'bottom' means. For a character string it means

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread Patrick Burns
Basically the only thing in the thread that was clear to me was Brian's phrasing. So I'd suggest basing any changes on that. Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") S Ellison wrote: Yup; you're all

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread S Ellison
Yup; you're all right - it IS consistent (and I'd even checked the x-adj and it did what I expected!!). It's just that ?text is talking about the position of the 'anchor' point in the text region rather than the subsequent location of the centre of the text. Anyway; if anyone is considering a mino

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, S Ellison wrote: ?text says "'adj' allows _adj_ustment of the text with respect to '(x,y)'. Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and right/top, respectively." But it looks like 0, 1 specify top, bottom respectively in the y direction. plot(1:4) te

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
S Ellison wrote: ?text says "'adj' allows _adj_ustment of the text with respect to '(x,y)'. Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and right/top, respectively." But it looks like 0, 1 specify top, bottom respectively in the y direction. plot(1:4) text(2,2, "adj=c(0,0)

Re: [Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 7/22/2008 7:36 AM, S Ellison wrote: ?text says "'adj' allows _adj_ustment of the text with respect to '(x,y)'. Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and right/top, respectively." But it looks like 0, 1 specify top, bottom respectively in the y direction. plot(1:4)

[Rd] Is text(..., adj) upside down? (Or am I?)

2008-07-22 Thread S Ellison
?text says "'adj' allows _adj_ustment of the text with respect to '(x,y)'. Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and right/top, respectively." But it looks like 0, 1 specify top, bottom respectively in the y direction. plot(1:4) text(2,2, "adj=c(0,0)", adj=c(0,0)) text