[R] Rotation of axis labels

[Uwe Ligges]

Sven Garbade wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I can I rotate the x-axis labels 45 degree in clockwise direction? I`ve
> tried
> 
> > axis(1, ..., las=2)
> 
> but this gives labels vertical to the axis, and las=0 or las=1 always
> parallel axis labels.


I think that's not possible with axis().

One way is to use text() as in this quick hack:

 plot(x, y, xaxt="n")
 axis(1, labels=FALSE)
 pr <- pretty(x)
 par(xpd=TRUE)
 text(pr, par("usr")[3], pr, adj=0, srt=-90)

Surely that's not perfect!

Uwe
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