Oh! Great idea. I'll give that a try.


---Kyle.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap@tibco.com> wrote:

> You can use strwrap  and paste to insert newlines into your labels.  E.g.,
>
> > wrapped <- function(strings, width) vapply(strings,
> function(s)paste(collapse="\n", strwrap(s, width)), FUN.VALUE="",
> USE.NAMES=FALSE)
> > par(mfrow=c(2,1))
> > barplot(structure(11:15, names=wrapped(state.name[31:35], 6)))
> > barplot(structure(11:15, names=state.name[31:35]))
> > wrapped(state.name[31:35], 6)
> [1] "New\nMexico"     "New\nYork"       "North\nCarolina" "North\nDakota"
> [5] "Ohio"
>
> strwrap, hence the above wrapped, uses units of characters, not cm.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> On Behalf
> > Of Kyle.
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 11:35 AM
> > To: RHelp
> > Subject: [R] Wrap names.arg text in barplot
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Does anyone know of a handy way to wrap the names.arg text in a barplot?
> > I'm creating a bar plot with rather long labels; I can adjust the
> margins,
> > but I'd also like to have the text wrap to about 4cm. Thanks!
> >
> >
> > Kyle H. Ambert
> > Doctoral Candidate, Bioinformatics
> > Oregon Health & Science University
> > ambertk@gmail.com
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