[R] Wrapping long labels in barplot(2)
Jan P. Smit
janpsmit at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 05:47:33 CEST 2005
I am using barplot, and barplot2 in the gregmisc bundle, in the
following way:
barplot2(sort(xtabs(expend / 1000 ~ theme)),
col = c(mdg7, mdg8, mdg3, mdg1), horiz = T, las = 1,
xlab = "$ '000", plot.grid = T)
The problem is that the values of 'theme', which is a factor, are in
some cases rather long, so that I would like to wrap/split them at a
space once they exceed, say, 20 characters. What I'm doing now is
specifying names.arg manually with '\n' where I want the breaks, but I
would like to automate the process.
I've looked for a solution using 'strwrap', but am not sure how to apply
it in this situation.
Jan Smit
Consultant
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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