[R] How to divide too long labels?

[Atte Tenkanen]

Thank you for answering, both Roger and Henrik

There are only 5 cases which need divisions, so I inserted \n to them and
now everything works.

Atte

> 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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