[R] boxplot, vertical position of x-axis labels

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Kay Cichini wrote:

>
> hello,
>
> i can't figure out how to change the vertical position of my x axis  
> labels..
>
> boxplot(c(1:12)~c(rep("1",6),rep("2",6)),at=c(1,2),
> col=c(0,"grey"),las=1,xaxt="n")
>
> ### i put paragraphs in the x-labels because of limited horizontal  
> space
>
?axis

Try using the padj argument (and it bothered me to use the <cr>'s  
rather than "\n", so I modified the labels argument as well):

axis(1,at=c(1,2),adj=1,padj=0.5,labels=c("Salix\nScrub","Tall\nForb"))

>
>
> ...the labels are one line above usual position and cross the  
> tickmarks and
> i don't know how to get around this.
>
> can anyone help with this?
> thanks in advance.
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT