[R] Labels in horizontal dendrogram not placed correctly?

[Chris Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:28, joris meys <jorismeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried plotting a horizontal dendrogram, but it seems as if the
> labels are not taken into account in the function plot.dendrogram().
>
> A minimal example :
> Test <- data.frame(
>    x10000x = c(1:10),
>    x20000x = c(2:11),
>    x30000x = c(11:2)
> )
>
> TestDist <- daisy(data.frame(t(Test)))
> TestAgnes <- agnes(TestDist)
> plot(as.dendrogram(TestAgnes),horiz=T)
>
> If I run this in R 2.10.0, I get a horizontal dendrogram with the
> labels to the far right, and partly outside the plot area. This is
> highly inconvenient. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
> Kind regards
> Joris
>
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Extend your right margin before plotting and you will be able to see the labels:

par(mar=c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 5.1))
plot(as.dendrogram(TestAgnes),horiz=T)