Hi Berry,

True, it works. Thanks for this and teh general advice. I have been doing
things wrong from day 1 and never realised it!

Cheers,

Paolo


On 8 July 2011 13:43, Berry Boessenkool <berryboessenk...@hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Hey Paolo,
>
> you should specify las BEFORE you send the axis command.
> It would also be good to set greater margins, this needs to be set before
> the entire plot, thus in following order:
>
> par(las = 3, mar=c(6,2,2,2))
> plot(ExtAvgCWV, ann=FALSE, xaxt="n", yaxt="n" )
> axis(side =1 , at = tickplaces, labels = Labels)
>
> If you only want to use las, you can also use this as an arument in the
> axis function.
>
> HTH,
> Berry
>
> -------------------------------------
> Berry Boessenkool
> Potsdam
> -------------------------------------
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:20:51 +0100
> > From: statmailingli...@googlemail.com
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] Vertical Labels in plot graph - normally working fine but
> not    on this graph
>  >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wonder if someone can elaborate on why in the first graph I am able to
> set
> > labels vertical to the x-axis but not in the second.
> >
> > I tried to select the window but it didnt really help.
> >
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Paolo
> >
> >
> >
> > ExtAvgCWV = rnorm(200)
> > ExtAvgDemand = rnorm(200)
> > ExtGasDays =   seq(from = as.Date("2010-8-4", "%Y-%m-%d"), along.with =
> > ExtAvgCWV, by = "days")
> > plot(ExtAvgCWV, ann=FALSE, xaxt="n", yaxt="n" )
> > tickplaces <-  seq( from = 1, by = 21, to = length(ExtGasDays))
> > Labels = ExtGasDays[tickplaces]
> > axis(side =1 , at = tickplaces, labels = Labels)
> > par(las = 3)
> >
> > windows()
> > plot(ExtAvgDemand, ann=FALSE, xaxt="n", yaxt="n" )
> > #dev.set(which = 4)
> > axis(side =1 , at = tickplaces, labels = Labels)
> > par(las = 3)
> >
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