Hi Greg,

Many thanks¡¡¡

For the moment, as Jim suggested thigmophobe.labels in the plotrix package
worked properly¡¡¡

Many thanks¡¡¡



2010/2/1 Greg Snow <Greg.Snow@imail.org>

> What you are asking (making labels of points not overlap the points) is
> either very simple or very complicated, depending on your data and what you
> want the results to look like.
>
> It may be as simple as text(x, y-strheight('A'), labels).
>
> If that does not do what you want, then there is thigmophobe.labels in the
> plotrix package (already mentioned by Jim Lemon) which works great for some
> datasets.  Also spread.labels (plotrix package) and spread.labs
> (TeachingDemos package) work in different situations.  There may be some
> other automated attempts in other packages, but they are not coming to mind.
>  A less automatic approach that gives you more control is the
> dynIdentify/TkIdentify functions (TeachingDemos package).
>
> If you want rectangles around the labels, then you may want the
> boxed.labels function (plotrix).  If you want to do your own rectangles then
> there are the rect and symbols functions.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow@imail.org
> 801.408.8111
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Jose Narillos de Santos
> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:30 PM
> > To: Jim Lemon; r-help@r-project.org; baptiste auguie
> > Subject: Re: [R] Fwd: Re: Graph color
> >
>  > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Last question.
> >
> > I´m using a spanish version (there are some documents on how
> > constructing
> > good plots and I have found them althought not very intuitive...) I
> > will
> > read them in a next days.
> >
> > Only if you know the way.
> >
> > Imagine I have made a plot like plot(x,y)
> >
> > and I use labels (on each cross point appears a name) but they appear
> > on the
> > dot ¿Do you know some way to show the label below the dot? there is
> > some way
> > to indicate the program try to not to overlap labels (if they are very
> > near?)
> >
> > Happy nice wekend all¡¡¡
> >
> > 2010/1/29 Jim Lemon <jim@bitwrit.com.au>
> >
> > > On 01/29/2010 10:08 AM, Jose Narillos de Santos wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Jim your suggestion doesn´t work properly. I have find some
> > documents
> > >> on graphs so let me think till monday and if not I will detail where
> > it
> > >> fails.
> > >> Sorry again...I feel very silly, really, it is not a joke but I will
> > >> continue trying...
> > >> I have a question also, in a general plot (please if you can help me
> > it
> > >> would be fantastic)
> > >> Imagine again a plot
> > >>
> > >>  > x <- rnorm(10)
> > >>
> > >>  > y <- rnorm(10)
> > >>
> > >> If I plot(x,y)
> > >>
> > >> it appears a scatter plot.
> > >>
> > >> If you see y axis (the y axis on the left) has numbers. But the
> > parallel
> > >> (imaginary)  y axis on the right appears only as a line (without the
> > >> numbers, the scale).
> > >>
> > >> Do you know how to show the scale the same numbers in both (left and
> > >> right axis)? I think this way the graphs seem more simetrical.
> > >>
> > > Hi Jose,
> > > Try this:
> > >
> > > par(mar=c(5,4,4,4))
> > > plot(rnorm(10),rnorm(10))
> > > axis(4)
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > >
> >
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