[R] How to change the label position in axis() ?

Ben Bolker ben at zoo.ufl.edu
Tue Jan 14 23:42:09 CET 2003


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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 Liu.Chunhua at epamail.epa.gov wrote:

> 
> Dear R People,
> 
> I'm working on a plot function to produce the graph shown below. One of
> the features my supervisor does not like is that the labels in the Y-
> axix are shown vertically. Is there a way to change that to horizontally
> ?
> 
> This is the axix() function I used  :
> 
> axis(2,at=seq(nstrat),labels=snames)
> 
> The labels (snames)  are: SEV1:HU:C, SEV1:MU:C, SEV1:MU:L, SEV1:RT:C
> and SEV1:RT:L, due to space limitation just 3 of the labels are shown in
> the axix.
> In Splus, I believe the labels are shown horizontally be default. What
> we want is to show them horizontally in R too. Is there a way to do it ?
> 
> I studied help(axix) document, and did not see a way to do it.
> 
> THanks for the help
> 
> 
> Charlie Liu
> Graduate Intern at US EPA
> 
> 
> (Embedded image moved to file: pic08925.pcx)

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