[R] How to get ``nn%'' in axis values

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> > >Also, the x axis value labels on my horizontal barplot are rotated 90 degrees
> > >(perpendicular to the axis) no matter what I do. I tried las=1 but that didn't
> > >work. Is this doable?
> >
> > I believe that depends on the graphics driver, but I've never played
> > with las.  If it works for other kinds of plots but not barplots, then
> > I'd submit it as a bug report.
>
> Just use something like
>
>  par(las=1)
>  barplot(....)
>
> which works for me.
>
> You cannot specify las as an argument in barplot at this time.
> It would be easy to add this functionality to barplot(),
> *but* there are very many arguments in par() that cannot be passed to
> barplot() and to many other high-level graphic functions. It will cost
> many lines of code to make it possible to pass *all* those arguments
> directly.

That's a good point, but it seems that just adding ... in a couple
of places does this.  It should work come 1.4.0, if this survives
further testing.

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