Oh! Great idea. I'll give that a try.
---Kyle. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@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-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@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 > > ambe...@gmail.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
