[R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)

[Mulholland, Tom]

I think this might have been my code

mapply(paste,strwrap(levels(ncdata$Chapter),18,simplify = FALSE),collapse = "\n")

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:janpsmit at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:15 PM
> To: Mulholland, Tom
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)
> 
> 
> Dear Tom,
> 
> Many thanks. I think this gets me in the right direction, but 
> concatenates all levels into one long level. Any further thoughts?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> Mulholland, Tom wrote:
> > This may not be the best way but in the past I think I have 
> done something like
> > 
> > levels(x) <- paste(strwrap(levels(x),20,prefix = 
> ""),collapse = "\n")
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jan P. Smit [mailto:janpsmit at gmail.com]
> >>Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:48 AM
> >>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >>Subject: [R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)
> >>
> >>
> >>I am using barplot, and barplot2 in the gregmisc bundle, in the 
> >>following way:
> >>
> >>barplot2(sort(xtabs(expend / 1000 ~ theme)),
> >>     col = c(mdg7, mdg8, mdg3, mdg1), horiz = T, las = 1,
> >>     xlab = "$ '000", plot.grid = T)
> >>
> >>The problem is that the values of 'theme', which is a 
> factor, are in 
> >>some cases rather long, so that I would like to wrap/split 
> them at a 
> >>space once they exceed, say, 20 characters. What I'm doing now is 
> >>specifying names.arg manually with '\n' where I want the 
> >>breaks, but I 
> >>would like to automate the process.
> >>
> >>I've looked for a solution using 'strwrap', but am not sure 
> >>how to apply 
> >>it in this situation.
> >>
> >>Jan Smit
> >>
> >>Consultant
> >>Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
> >>
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