[R] frequency of labels in a barplot

stephen sefick ssefick at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 13:58:13 CEST 2008


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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:56 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:08 PM, R_Learner <sschiang8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to control the number of labels in the x-axis of my plot. My code
>> is the following:
>>
>> graph1<-barplot(total_skew)
>> axis(1,at = graph1,labels=raw_date[1:length(total_skew)], las=2)
>>
>> however, the length of my "total_skew" parameter is a few thousand elements,
>> and all the labels on the x-axis are overlapping and cluttered. How do I
>> specify the frequency or number of labels I want on the x-axis in the axis()
>> function? Thanks!
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make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

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