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[David Winsemius]

On Apr 14, 2012, at 9:21 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Apr 14, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Fino Fontana wrote:
>
>> I am wrestling with the following in creating a barplot in R:
>> I have a data set with 18 entries. It is plotted in a bargraph. The  
>> x-axis should have 18 tick marks each with its own label. What  
>> happens is, only a few labels are shown; there is not enough space  
>> for all labels. The tick marks are concentrated on the left side of  
>> the axis.
>
> The mar parameter to par() will give you control of the lower margin  
> and the 'las' parameter will give you control of the axis label  
> orientation:
>
> barplot(times$duur, names.arg= times$taak, las=3, mar=c(8,3,2,2) )

Make that:

 > opar <- par(mar=c(8,3,2,2))
 > barplot(times$duur, names.arg= times$taak, las=3 )
 > par(opar)

>
> I'd like to have all labels shown, in vertical direction.
>>
>> This is part of the data:
>>
>>> times
>>        taak  duur
>> 1   algemeen 48.75
>> 2   swimming 14.25
>> 3   football 24.25
>> 4     tennis 36.75
>> 5  bicycling  1.50
>>
>> Under 'taak' are the labels.
>> This is the code that should do the job:
>>
>> barplot(
>> width= bar_width,
>> times$duur,
>> names.arg=times$taak,
>> col=fill_colors,
>> border="NA",
>> space=0.3,
>> xlab="taak",
>> ylab="uren",
>> main="Uren per taak")
>>
>> axis(1,at=1:length(times$taak),lab=times$taak)
>>
>>
>> Could anyone give me advise on how to get rid of this horrible x  
>> axis?
>>
>> Thanks and r
>>
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>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT