[R] Overlap of leaf labels

[David Winsemius]

On May 20, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Ivan Calandra wrote:

> Hi,
> I think that one of the cex arguments in par() can be what you're  
> looking for. But since I've never plotted any dendrogram, I don't  
> know which one, if any.

?par

Appears that the first effort should be to use cex.lab = 0.3 or some  
such.


> HTH,
> Ivan
>
> Le 5/20/2010 14:08, Ayesha Jadoon a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tried looking at the archives but havent found any answer  
>> that works
>> till now (Sorry if i have missed anything)
>>
>>
>> I am a newbie to R and i am trying to carry out hierarchical  
>> clustering
>> using hclust ->  as.dendrogram and then plotting the results as a  
>> dendrogram
>> using the plot function plot(object).
>>
>> My question is :
>>
>> In the function "plot", can one decrease the leaf label size to  
>> make them
>> readable and clear? I am including over 380 proteins in my dendrogram
>> and each leaf has a label which are currently overlapping and not
>> decipherable?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Ayesha
>>
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