[R] labels cut partially on hist

[AA]

Thanks Prof. Ripley and John for this quick answer.
both par(xpd = TRUE) and setting ylim worked.
Thanks again.
A.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "AA" <aa2007r at gmail.com>
Cc: "R-Help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [R] labels cut partially on hist


> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, AA wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I have the following function where I plot on one page a histogram and a 
>> boxplot. I use option labels = TRUE in hist to show labels. However the 
>> label on the highest bar in the histogram is not showing entirely. How 
>> can I correct this?
>
> par(xpd=TRUE) will stop the labels being clipped, but I think you need to 
> set ylim in the call to hist to make room for the labels.
>
>> Thanks for any suggestions?
>>
>> histtst <-
>>  function(n = 100,...){
>>    set.seed(15)  # makes rnorm reproducible
>>    par(mfrow = c(2,1))
>>    x <- rnorm(n)
>>    hist(x, labels = TRUE)
>>    boxplot(x, horizontal = TRUE)
>>  }
>>
>> A.
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