[R] How to divide too long labels?

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On 3/18/06, Atte Tenkanen <attenka at utu.fi> wrote:
> Is there any possibility to divide too long text in a plot to two or more
> lines, when using labels-parameter in the text()-command?
>
> Here is an example picture:
>
> http://users.utu.fi/attenka/253.jpeg
>
> My example script is something like this:
>
> text(1,0.7,labels=Chordnames[fnid(pcs%%12)]) # according to Larry
> Solomon's table http://solomonsmusic.net/pcsets.htm
>
> Chordnames is a long vector with long character strings.

plot(1, xlab="First row\nSecond row")
text(1,1, labels="First row\nSecond row")

To insert a '\n' at sensible positions such as between two words, look
at regexpr() and substring() and paste(). If you labels have a known
pattern you might be able to use gsub().

/Henrik

> Atte Tenkanen
> University of Turku
> Finland
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