[R] strwidth to lines

[Thomas Kaliwe]

Why do you take 2.54? I think you forgot a bracket...

#par(mar = c(max(strwidth(names(x)) * 2.54, 4,4,2))
#
#should be
par(mar = c(max(strwidth(names(x))) * 2.54, 4,4,5))

#and 5 would be a better value. But this is merely trial and error?!

Regards

Thomas Kaliwe


Henrique Dallazuanna schrieb:
> Try this:
>
> par(mar = c(max(strwidth(names(x)) * 2.54, 4,4,2))
> barplot(x, las = 3)
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Thomas Kaliwe <hamstersquats at web.de 
> <mailto:hamstersquats at web.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear members,
>
>     Is there a way to turn a strwidth of a string into a number of
>     lines that ist needed to display the string when using par(mar =
>     c(?,4,4,2))
>
>     ####
>     x = 1:5
>     names(x) = c("ZZZZZ","ZZZZZzzzzz","ZZZlllll","TTTTT","Zzhtsddfg" )
>     par(mfrow = c(1,2))
>     par(mar = c(8,4,4,2))
>     barplot(x, las = 3, main = "8 is to much")
>     par(mar = c(4,4,4,2))
>     barplot(x, las = 3, main = "4 is not enough")
>     ###
>
>
>     strwidth2lines...
>
>
>     regards
>
>     Thomas Kaliwe
>
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