Hi

Sorry to be honest, i hit reply before i realised!


Thanks a bunch!
It worked! I can visualise the labels!

Ayesha Jadoon

PhD student
PSD, FWB
Kings college London
SE1 9NH
UK
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:38 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

> I got an offlist response saying my advice was not correct, not surprising
> in the absence of a reproducible example on which to test. Looking at the
> help page, which seems the sensible place for anyone to start, we see that
> the second plotting example for dendrograms uses lab.cex and it need to be
> in a list offered to nodePar.
>
> plot(dend1, nodePar = list(lab.cex = 0.3))
>
> So I think my advice was correct up to the wider interpretation of "... or
> some such."
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>
> On May 20, 2010, at 9:15 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>
>> 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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>> David Winsemius, MD
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> David Winsemius, MD
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