I have a very standard barplot. My labels are too long to be printed horizontally under each bar, so I am using text to put the labels on a 45 degree slant.
However, the labels are spaced more narrowly than the bars, so on an 8 vertical bar plot, the end of the eighth label is lined up with the seventh bar. Preferably I don't want to do every text label separately (I'm having this problem on all the graphs where I'm using text() Using Windows and version 2.14.1 X2sum <- c(42.6, 3.6, 1.8, 3.9, 12.1, 14.3, 14.6 ,28.4) X2.labels <- c("No earnings", "Less than $5000/year", "$5K to $10K" , "$10K to $15K" , "$ 15K to $20K" , "$20K to $25K" , "$25K to $30K" , "Over $30K" ) barplot(X2sum) text(1:8, par("usr")[3] - 0.5, srt = 45, adj = 1, labels =X2.labels, xpd = TRUE) Thanks, Jon -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Spacing-of-text-does-not-match-spacing-of-bars-in-barplot-tp4439635p4439635.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.