On 08/14/2013 10:40 PM, Alexander Gotowski wrote:
Hi,

        I'm attempting to make a bar plot for some genomics data that includes 
a separate bar for each sample taken. I am having trouble applying these sample 
labels to the individual bars. It seems that the barplot() function will only 
take a numeric matrix, and therefore cannot have any character vectors 
included. Thus, I can make a bar plot that labels the bars 1,2,3,etc., but not 
with the actual sample names. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Alexander,
As Sarah pointed out, the names.arg= argument allows you to pass labels for the bars. As the labels are often sufficiently long that only some will be displayed, it might be worth looking at the staxlab function in the plotrix package if you have to display all of the labels.

Jim

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