
I apologize for the improperly formatted submission.  I had my hotmail set to plain text instead of rich text.
x <- "output"y <- unlist(strsplit(x, NULL))
plot.new()text(.5, .5, paste(y, collapse="\n"))

> From: tyler_rinker@hotmail.com
> To: israelbyrd@hotmail.com; r-help@r-project.org
> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:08:17 -0500
> Subject: Re: [R] Vertical string with horizontal letters
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> One possible solution is to use strsplit to break on each character and then paste to put in a "\n" after each character.  Then when you plot the text should be in the format you desire.
> x <- "output"y <- unlist(strsplit(x, NULL))p <- cat(paste(y, collapse="\n"))
> plot.new()text(.5, .5, paste(y, collapse="\n"))
> 
> cheersTyler----------------------------------------
> > From: israelbyrd@hotmail.com
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:20:17 +0000
> > Subject: [R] Vertical string with horizontal letters
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to format text on a plot such that the string is vertical but the letters are horizonal. I tried
> > text(1,1,label="output", srt=270)
> > This gives the string rotation I want, but that rotates the entire "output" so the letters are also rotated. I've also tried
> > text(1,1,label="output", srt=270, crt=270)
> > to no avail. par()$crt doesn't seem to affect text? The format I want is demonstrated below:
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> > Thanks.
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