If you insert `\n` between each letter, then it should do what you want with a single call to text or mtext. To expand on David's example:
plot(1:10) text(5,5, paste( strsplit(txvec, ''), collapse='\n') ) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jun 12, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Stuart Rosen wrote: > >> For labelling a plot, I am trying to rotate a character string using >> text() so that characters are upright and reading down, for example, ... >> >> L >> i >> k >> e >> >> t >> h >> i >> s >> . >> >> It appears that par crt does not work with text. Does anyone have any >> other suggestions. > > > Just print the letters separately. Something like this untested use of > `mapply`: > > mapply(text, labels=strsplit(txvec, ""), > x=1, # or some other appropriate number, should get recycled. > y=seq(start, end, length=nchar(txvec) ) > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.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.
