[R] Passing colnames to graphics title

[Laura Quinn]

Wonderful, thank you very much!

Laura Quinn
Institute of Atmospheric Science
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

> a simple thing to do is:
>
> mat <- matrix(...) # your matrix
> nams <- dimnames(mat)[[2]]
> for(j in 1:ncol(mat)) hist(mat[,j], main=nams[j])
> # or hist(mat[,j], xlab=paste("...", nams[j], "..."))
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>
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> Dimitris Rizopoulos
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laura Quinn" <laura at env.leeds.ac.uk>
> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:56 PM
> Subject: [R] Passing colnames to graphics title
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick query - if I'm creating a function to produce a number
> > of
> > histograms per page of output (one per column from a matrix), how
> > can I
> > pass the column name of the matrix into the title (or indeed to form
> > part
> > of the x-axis label)?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Laura
> >
> > Laura Quinn
> > Institute of Atmospheric Science
> > School of Earth and Environment
> > University of Leeds
> > Leeds
> > LS2 9JT
> >
> > tel: +44 113 343 1596
> > fax: +44 113 343 6716
> > mail: laura at env.leeds.ac.uk
> >
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