[R] x-axis label print in 45 degree

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Thu Aug 12 21:34:16 CEST 2010


On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:14 PM, array chip wrote:
>
>> Hi how can print x-axis labels in 45 degree in boxplot() (or plot  
>> in general)? I
>> can use las=2 to print in 90 degree, but it looks ugly. Is there a  
>> simple option
>> to do 45 degree easily?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
>
>
> John,
>
> See R FAQ 7.27 How can I create rotated axis labels?
>
>  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-create-rotated-axis-labels_003f
>

Although several of the hits in a search on "rotate axis labels" did  
point to the FAQ, there are probably other worked examples you could  
easily have found in the other 130+ hits at Baron's search page  
(including it appears on a cursory examination one from Marc in  each  
of the last 7 years).

> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
-- 
> .

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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