[R] R kiteChart (plotrix) arguments

[Jim Lemon]

On 09/18/2011 04:42 AM, antqueen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I hope someone is able to help.  I've created a graph using kiteChart (in
> the plotrix package) but need to know how to perform some basic text
> alterations to the graph.  I would like to re-orientate the text on the
> y-axis from vertical to horizontal.  I understand that the argument normally
> for this is las=1.  However, this does not seem to work.  Perhaps kitechart
> uses an alternative argument?
>
> I also need to re-size the text on both axes.  I've used both cex and
> cex.axis but again nothing seems to be working.  However, I can get the axes
> labels to change size using cex.lab, but just not the numbers on the tick
> marks.  Its a bit frustrating!!!
>
Hi antqueen,
Try this before calling kiteChart:

par(las=1,cex.axis=1.2)

Seems to work for me with the examples on the help page.

Jim