[R] reverse orientation of text in plot margins

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 13-Aug-2008 at 06:32PM +0200, Karel Van den Meersche wrote:

|> 
|> Dear R users,
|> 

|> I am trying to reverse the orientation of axis labels and title in
|> the right margin of a plot, so that they read from top to bottom. I
|> know that this can be done using text() as follows:

|> par(mar=c(5,4,4,4)+.1)
|> plot(1:4,las=0)
|> par(new=T)
|> y <- rnorm(4)
|> plot(y,axes=FALSE,ann=FALSE,pch=17)
|> axis(4,labels=FALSE)

I think it would be easiest to work out values for at and labels in
this statement.  ?axis.

HTH

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