[R] question about plot.dendrogram

Paul Murrell p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz
Fri May 7 03:45:44 CEST 2004


Hi


ivan.borozan at utoronto.ca wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i'm trying to plot a dendrogram with labeled leaves
> 
>>rownames(f)<-v.names
>>v<-rowMeans(f, na.rm=T)
>>clust<-hclust(dist(v))
>>dend<-as.dendrogram(clust,hang=0.05)
>>clust2<-cut(dend, h=0.5)
>>class(clust2$low[[1]])
>>[1] "dendrogram"
> 
> then 
> 
>>plot(clust2$low[[1]],horiz=TRUE,frame=F,type = "tr"))
> 
> but my leaf labels do not fit entirely in the plot region. Has anyone an idea
> how to get around this without using cex , something similar to "hang=0.5" so
> that my labels do not start to hang from 0 ?


Does making the bottom figure margin bigger help?  e.g., ...

par(mar=c(10, 4, 4, 2))

Paul
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