Peter, Try par()$lheight
The catch is, you need to set it *before* the call to text() par(lheight=.8) # closer together text(x, y, "whatever\nsecondline") The best place to find options like lheight is in ?par Sarah On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Peter Langfelder <peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > tried to google but found nothing, so here goes the question: is there > a way to control line spacing when displaying text in graphical mode > (for example, using text())? > > As an example, run the following code: > > plot(c(0,1), c(0,1), type = "n", axes = FALSE, xlab = "", ylab = "") > text(0.5, 0.5, "Line 1\nLine 2", cex = 3) > > Is there a way to control the line spacing between the text lines > "Line 1" and "Line 2" in the resulting plot? > > Thanks! > > Peter > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
