[R] dotchart: Gap between text and chart

[Dietrich Trenkler]

I have some data which I would like to display with dotchart. The
labels are very long, so the chart becomes too small. Setting cex=0.7
seems to be a good compromise, but the gap between the text and the
chart still is too large. I did not find a "gap" parameter in the
description of dotchart...

Thanks for any help.

D. Trenkler


"a" <- structure(c(103.35, 36.73, 55.09, 302.66, 68.54, 35.46,
    138.65, 25.21, 110.85, 6.66, 46.57, 70.23), .Names = 
c("Nahrungsmittel und alkoholfreie Getraenke",
    "Alkoholische Getraenke, Tabakwaren", "Bekleidung und Schuhe",
    "Wohnungsmieten, Energie", "Einrichtungsgegenstaende", 
"Gesundheitspflege",
    "Verkehr", "Nachrichtenuebermittlung", "Freizeit, Unterhaltung  und 
Kultur",
    "Bildungswesen", "Beherbergungs und Gaststaettendienstleistungen",
    "Andere Waren und Dienstleistungen"))

dotchart(sort(a))
dotchart(sort(a),cex=0.7)
                                

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Dietrich Trenkler c/o Universitaet Osnabrueck 
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email: Dietrich.Trenkler at Uni-Osnabrueck.de