[R] graph tick label size

[Uwe Ligges]

FISCHER, Matthew wrote:

> Hi R-users,
> 
> 
>     I'm running R under Unix and producing postscript output of graphs.
> Soemtimes, some tick axis labels disappear from my output.
>  eg if I have a vector
> 
> months <- c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D")
> 
> Then the "M" and one or 2 other letters are dropped from the axis.
> 
> This seems to be a size problem, but the spacing looks fine to me (all
> the letters could easily be seen if they were all there).  So my
> question is, can I override what R is doing to the tick labels, without making the
> labels smaller?  I searched the help files but couldn't find anything specifically on this.


Not directly, but you can fake by plotting the stuff in two chunks as in:

plot(1:12, xaxt="n")
months <- c("J","F","M","A","M","J","J","A","S","O","N","D")
temp <- seq(1, 12, 2)
axis(1, temp, labels=months[temp])
temp <- seq(2, 12, 2)
axis(1, temp, labels=months[temp])

Uwe Ligges



> cheers,
> 
> Matt.
> 
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