[R] barplots - text direction

[Simon Blomberg]

See las under ?par. You can often pass par parameters to higher-level 
graphics functions, so barplot(h, las=2) (for example) works.

HTH,

Simon.

At 11:27 AM 24/08/2005, Murray Pung wrote:
>If the variable names are too long to allow room for each to be displayed 
>on a barplot, how can the direction of the text be changed?
>
>a <- cbind(2.4,2.4,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.9,2.9,2.9)
>b <- cbind(2.3,2.5,2.4,2.2,3.2,2.4,2.9,2.6,2.9,3.0,2.8)
>h <- rbind(a,b)
>colnames(h) <- 
>c("one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine","ten","eleven")
>rownames(h) <- c("Pre-stage","Post-stage")
>barplot(h, beside = T, legend = colnames(g), horiz = T, xlim = c(0, 5))
>
>
>Many Thanks
>Murray
>
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