[R] dotchart: Gap between text and chart

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On 3/13/06, Dietrich Trenkler <Dietrich.Trenkler at uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
> I have some data which I would like to display with dotchart. The
> labels are very long, so the chart becomes too small. Setting cex=0.7
> seems to be a good compromise, but the gap between the text and the
> chart still is too large. I did not find a "gap" parameter in the
> description of dotchart...
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> D. Trenkler
>
>
> "a" <- structure(c(103.35, 36.73, 55.09, 302.66, 68.54, 35.46,
>     138.65, 25.21, 110.85, 6.66, 46.57, 70.23), .Names =
> c("Nahrungsmittel und alkoholfreie Getraenke",
>     "Alkoholische Getraenke, Tabakwaren", "Bekleidung und Schuhe",
>     "Wohnungsmieten, Energie", "Einrichtungsgegenstaende",
> "Gesundheitspflege",
>     "Verkehr", "Nachrichtenuebermittlung", "Freizeit, Unterhaltung  und
> Kultur",
>     "Bildungswesen", "Beherbergungs und Gaststaettendienstleistungen",
>     "Andere Waren und Dienstleistungen"))
>
> dotchart(sort(a))
> dotchart(sort(a),cex=0.7)

For what it's worth,

library(lattice)
dotplot(sort(a))

seems to do a better job.

Deepayan