[BioC] Flipping labels on bottom of boxplot

Paul Geeleher paulgeeleher at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:00:44 CEST 2008


Perfect! Thanks alot I thought it was something small like that...

-Paul.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Artur Veloso <abveloso at gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> try adding "las=2" to your boxplot function call.
>
> Cheers,
> Artur
>
> boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, col = "lightgray",las=2)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a problem
> > in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of the screen
> > because they overlap.
> >
> > Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about:
> > http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf
> >
> > As you can see only half the array labels are visible.
> >
> > Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that they
> > vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it somewhere before but
> > don't know how to do it...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Paul.
> >
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