[R] long margin text below lattice plot - how to wrap lines?

[Pascal Oettli]

Hello

You can insert \n in your text.

mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text\n that it goes on 
forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order\n for someone to be 
able to read it properly.")

HTH
Pascal


Le 12/12/2012 16:22, knallgrau at gmx.com a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I've got a lattice plot and need to add text into the bottom margin of the plotting area (below the bottom legend).
> This seems to work in principle using grid.arrange, yet the text to be added is rather long. As a consequence, it gets clipped:
>
> require(lattice)
> require(grid)
> myplot <- xyplot(1~1)
> mytext <- textGrob("This is such a very very long text that it goes on forever and therefore needs to be wrapped in order for someone to be able to read it properly.")
> grid.arrange(myplot, sub=mytext)
>
> Is there any way to wrap the lines of the text or some other of workaround to this problem?
>
> I've tried figuring it out myself, but it's a rather urgent problem and therefore I was hoping to find some help here.
>
> Best,
> Irene
>
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