Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 07.01.2013 07:00, Michael Rennie wrote: Hi all, I have read through the archives, but can't find a solution to this problem. I need the text direction on dependent B, plotted in margin 4, to go top to bottom (opposite what it is now). Here's some sample code: #plot with mtext example

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Rennie
Any thoughts on what that dirty hack might be or any leads on where to start? Perhaps a whole new plot region in the margin or something? Is that even possible? I'm having a difficult time imagining how I can do this. Mike Uwe Ligges wrote: On 07.01.2013 07:00, Michael Rennie wrote: Hi

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 07.01.2013 17:06, Michael Rennie wrote: Any thoughts on what that dirty hack might be or any leads on where to start? Perhaps a whole new plot region in the margin or something? Is that even possible? I'm having a difficult time imagining how I can do this. Ideas fir ugly hacks: Either

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Michael Rennie wrote: Any thoughts on what that dirty hack might be or any leads on where to start? Perhaps a whole new plot region in the margin or something? Is that even possible? I'm having a difficult time imagining how I can do this. The `text`

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Rennie
Right- I think the issue is getting a text() command (which does accept srt) to work outside the plot region, and in the margin where I need it to appear. This is easy to hack in a single plot, but not so clear how to do it in a multi-panel environment with an outer margin. I suspect going

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Michael Rennie wrote: Right- I think the issue is getting a text() command (which does accept srt) to work outside the plot region, and in the margin where I need it to appear. This is easy to hack in a single plot, but not so clear how to do it in a

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread ilai
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.netwrote: If you are going that route you may want to look at the gridBase package. Yes for mixing base and grid graphics but IMHO overkill here. Replacing the last mtext line with grid::grid.text('dependent B', 0.985 , 0.5

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Rennie
HA! Works perfectly!!! Thanks so much ilai. ilai wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net mailto:dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: If you are going that route you may want to look at the gridBase package. Yes for mixing base and grid graphics but

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread Greg Snow
And look at the grconvertX and grconvertY functions for possibly ways to compute positioning information when using text with base graphics. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:35 AM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.netwrote: On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Michael Rennie wrote: Any thoughts on what

Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-07 Thread David L Carlson
77843-4352 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Greg Snow Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:59 PM To: David Winsemius Cc: r-help; Uwe Ligges; Michael Rennie Subject: Re: [R] Changing mtext direction, or using text

[R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Rennie
Hi all, I have read through the archives, but can't find a solution to this problem. I need the text direction on dependent B, plotted in margin 4, to go top to bottom (opposite what it is now). Here's some sample code: #plot with mtext example par(mgp = c(2,1,0), mfrow=c(2,2), las=1,