[R] Put short string labels vertically near tick marks on bottom axis

Hurr hill0093 at umn.edu
Wed May 14 13:36:47 CEST 2014


Ok, I want to try to avoid the miscommunications that 
you all seem to think I cause.
The following code works now because 
I use the single apostrophe-type of quote.
It gives the the horLabels at the bottom.

horAxisLims=c(0,7200)
verData=c(1,365,809,1252,1753,2191,2922,3409,3896,4383,4819,5255,5691,6128,6564,7000)
#not fussy
horData=c(1,300,800,1200,1700,2100,2900,3400,3800,4300,4800,5200,5600,6100,6500,7000)
#not at tics
horTicLocs=c(1,365,809,1252,1753,2191,2922,3409,3896,4383,4819,5255,5691,6128,6564,7000)
horLabels=c('1Yr','1Da','10.8Hr','7Hr','5Hr','4Hr','3Hr','2.57Hr','2.25Hr','2Hr','1.82Hr','1.67Hr','1.54Hr','1.43Hr','1.34Hr','1.25Hr')
plot(horData,verData,xaxt='n',xlim=horAxisLims)
axis(1,tick=TRUE,at=horTicLocs,labels=horLabels)

To deal with the desirables:
1) labels should be vertical
2) the bottom of the labels should line up with the ticks
it was suggested that I try:

install.packages(plotrix)
axis(1,tick=TRUE,at= horTicLocs,labels=rep("",length(horLabels)))
library(plotrix)
staxlab(1,at=horTicLocs,labels=horLabels,srt=90,adj=c(1,0))

So I tried this code:

install.packages(plotrix)
horAxisLims=c(0,7200)
verData=c(1,365,809,1252,1753,2191,2922,3409,3896,4383,4819,5255,5691,6128,6564,7000)
#not fussy
horData=c(1,300,800,1200,1700,2100,2900,3400,3800,4300,4800,5200,5600,6100,6500,7000)
#not at tics
horTicLocs=c(1,365,809,1252,1753,2191,2922,3409,3896,4383,4819,5255,5691,6128,6564,7000)
horLabels=c('1Yr','1Da','10.8Hr','7Hr','5Hr','4Hr','3Hr','2.57Hr','2.25Hr','2Hr','1.82Hr','1.67Hr','1.54Hr','1.43Hr','1.34Hr','1.25Hr')
plot(horData,verData,xaxt='n',xlim=horAxisLims)
axis(1,tick=TRUE,at= horTicLocs,labels=rep("",length(horLabels)))
library(plotrix)
staxlab(1,at=horTicLocs,labels=horLabels,srt=90,adj=c(1,0))

I get:
> install.packages(plotrix)
Error in install.packages(plotrix) : object 'plotrix' not found

Thanks,
Hurr




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