# [R] PAR(las)

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed Jan 13 09:27:44 CET 1999

 On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Troels Ring wrote:
>> Dear friends. In the documentation for PAR it is specified that "las"
>> allowing turning axis labels away from default=parallel to axis is not
>> implemented. I need to make graphs with horizontal Y axis labels - how
>> to ?  I'm using win98.  Thank you in advance.  Sincerely yours

As others have said,  par(las = <n>) has been implemented in the mean time,
and the implementer has forgotten to update the documentation.

I've corrected it, and (in the doc source par.Rd) it looks like

\item{las}{numeric in \{0,1,2\}; the style of axis labels.
0 = always parallel to the axis [\emph{default}],
1 = always horizontal,
2 = always perpendicular to the axis.}

which is S compatible.
However, in principle there is one case missing :

3 = always vertical

(it can almost be constructed by using las=1 and "manually" turn the plot
by  90 degrees...).

Can anyone think of a situation where one would want this?

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