[R] barplots - text direction

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 24-Aug-2005 at 01:54PM +1200, David Scott wrote:

|> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Murray Pung wrote:
|> 
|> > If the variable names are too long to allow room for each to be displayed on a barplot, how can the direction of the text be changed?
|> >
|> > a <- cbind(2.4,2.4,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.9,2.9,2.9)
|> > b <- cbind(2.3,2.5,2.4,2.2,3.2,2.4,2.9,2.6,2.9,3.0,2.8)
|> > h <- rbind(a,b)
|> > colnames(h) <- c("one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine","ten","eleven")
|> > rownames(h) <- c("Pre-stage","Post-stage")
|> > barplot(h, beside = T, legend = colnames(g), horiz = T, xlim = c(0, 5))
|> >
|> >
|> 
|> barplot(h, beside = T, legend = colnames(h), horiz = T, xlim = c(0, 5),
|>          las=1)
|> 
|> will do it.
|> 
|> Note: colnames(h) not colnames(g)

And note that rownames(h) will give a more sensible legend.



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