[R] Rotated mtext

[s-luppescu@uchicago.edu]

On 05-Feb-2001 Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
> At 10:28 05/02/01 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>s-luppescu at uchicago.edu wrote:
>>> On 02-Feb-2001 Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
>>> > Try to change the graphical parameter "las" to:
>>> >
>>> >       par(las=1)
>>> 
>>> I tried this, but whatever I put in for las I always got the text
> parallell to
>>> the vertical axis. I put las=1 and las=2 both in the mtext call and in
> par()
>>> with the same results each time.
>>
>>Works for me (R-1.2.1, NT4.0):
>>
>> par(las=1)
>> plot(1:10)
>> mtext("A", 4, line=1)
> 
> This works for me too on Solaris 2.7 (R-1.2.1):
> 
> par(las=1)
> plot(1:10)
> mtext("top", side=3)     # the text is 
> mtext("right", side=4)   # horizontal
> 
> par(las=2)
> plot(1:10)
> mtext("top", side=3)     # the text is 
> mtext("right", side=4)   # perpendicular to the axis

This simple example works for me, too. I think my problem is that I have some
other parameters on the line which prevents las or srt from working correctly.
Here's the line I'm trying to print:

>   mtext(rev(rownames(mdfname.2))[i], side=4,  outer=T, 
+  at=(((i-1) * 2 + 1) /(2* rowdim)), cex=0.7, las=2, srt=90)

Maybe it's the at that's preventing it from working. Is there a way around this?
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