[R] axis labels disappear

[Uwe Ligges]

Angel Lopez wrote:
> When I do a plot, e.g.
> plot(1:10)
> and resize the window so that the x-axis becomes too small to hold all 
> the x-axis labels, R automatically makes some of the labels disappear so 
> that the remaining fit in the available space.
> I would like to be able to tell R which labels should not be removed.
> 
> I've tried plotting the axis with axis() but this behaviour is still there.
> plot(1:10,xaxt="n")
> axis(side=1,at=1:10,labels=c("1","","","","5","","","","","10"))
> 
> In my case when I resize the window first the "10" disappears and the 
> the "5". Also if I start the graph with a 'small' window (e.g. 
> X11(width=3,height=3) I do not get the "10".
> Is there a way to force that these labels are not removed automatically?
> 
> I've searched the documentation but couldn't find any reference, Could 
> anyone point me to the right documentation for this feature?

Well, I think you cannot suppress that behaviour entirely, instead, you 
might want to just draw ticks and add labels with mtext()...

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks
> Angel
> 
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