[R] increasing space available for labels

[M?der J?rg]

hallo,

try inside text srt=90 (rotate the text) and cex=0.5 (or smaller it scales 
the text)

joerg maeder


> I've got a graph with really long labels.  I've tried decreasing the
> font size, but they're still getting truncated.  I've RTFMed & it
>seems that mgp should have something to do with this, but I can't make
>it work.  I need about 2-3x as much space for labels as is available by
>default (or on the example below).
> 
>     boxplot(split(ranks,c(1:25)), names=items, horizontal=F)
>     par(las=2,ps=7,mgp=c(1, 1, 0))
>     boxplot(split(ranks,c(1:25)), names=items, notch=T, horizontal=F,
>     add=F) abline(h=18)
>     abline(h=13)
>     abline(h=10)
>     abline(v=5.5)
>     abline(v=10.5)
>     abline(v=15.5)
>     abline(v=20.5)
>     par(ps=20)
>     for (x in 1:5) text(x*5-2,y=26, categories[x])
> 
> P.S. Many thanks to the folks who responded to my last plea for help
> with not being able to find order() in the man pages.  I don't know how
> I missed it.  I even looked for it in the "See Also" of the sort and
> rank manpages (where it's pointed to).  I'm sure this problem is
> similarly trivial, but I just can't see it.
> 
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