[R] labels cut partially on hist

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, AA wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I have the following function where I plot on one page a histogram and a 
> boxplot. I use option labels = TRUE in hist to show labels. However the 
> label on the highest bar in the histogram is not showing entirely. How 
> can I correct this?

par(xpd=TRUE) will stop the labels being clipped, but I think you need to 
set ylim in the call to hist to make room for the labels.

> Thanks for any suggestions?
>
> histtst <-
>  function(n = 100,...){
>    set.seed(15)  # makes rnorm reproducible
>    par(mfrow = c(2,1))
>    x <- rnorm(n)
>    hist(x, labels = TRUE)
>    boxplot(x, horizontal = TRUE)
>  }
>
> A.
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