Dear Jessica, You might try par(las=2) to rotate the tick labels to be perpendicular to the axes.
I hope this helps, John ------------------------------------------------ John Fox Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:58:26 +0200 Jessica Streicher <j.streic...@micromata.de> wrote: > Copied the wrong lines, sry > > l<-rep(list(1:5),20); boxplot(l,names=sample(1:20,20)) > > of course. > > thanks for the answer > > . > On 19.07.2012, at 16:17, Peter Ehlers wrote: > > > On 2012-07-19 06:58, Jessica Streicher wrote: > >> When i make Boxplots with a lot of boxes, the names of them get only > >> written down every second "column". > >> Since they aren't in any way ordered, you don't see anymore to what they > >> belong. > >> > >> example: > >> > >> l<-rep(list(1:5),20); boxplot(l,names=sample(20,1:20)) > >> > >> Is there a way to show them all, or do i have to split the plots? > > > > [Actually, your example is not reproducible without error - see > > ?sample.] > > > > Two solutions: > > 1. use the cex.axis argument to reduce the label size. > > 2. check out the staxlab() function in the plotrix package. > > > > Peter Ehlers > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
