[R] line break in pie chart labels

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Thu Sep 28 23:50:50 CEST 2006


Benjamin Otto wrote:
> Hi,
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> Given a pie chart with some really long labels can R insert line breaks
> here? Why I imagine is getting a label displayed as
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>>some really extraordinary 
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>>long and non-ending label
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> Instead of
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>>some really extraordinary long and non-ending label
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Hi Benjamin,

Try:

pie(1:4,labels=c("The first\nlong label",
  "The second, even\nlonger label",
  "The third, quite\nboring and\nstill longer\nlabel",
  "The fourth, final\nflagrantly\nverbose and\nlongest label\nof the lot"))

Jim



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