Jim Thanks for this suggestion— it looks like that accomplish my goal, although I am frustrated that there does not appear to be a simlpe answer to my initial question, i.e., is there a way to tell whether the usual manner of created labels prints all entries.
Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com > On May 1, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Dennis, > Perhaps you were looking for "staxlab" in the plotrix package. > > Jim > > > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:26 AM, David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> wrote: >> I don't think you can tell in advance since the details of the plot are >> computed when you open the plot window and they change when you plot into >> the window. In principal you could estimate the size requirements for the >> axis labels if you know the plot window size and the character size. What >> gets plotted is also device dependent. For example if you open a window >> using x11(3, 3) (I'm on windows so I haven't tried this on OS X) and produce >> the plot, the last x-axis is missing just as in the pdf file. But if you >> drag the window to make it larger, the label will appear when the device >> driver redraws the plot. >> >> There is also a third option in addition to your two to getting all of the >> labels: >> >> plot(0:100, 0:100, xaxp=c(0, 100, 4)) >> >> will plot at 0, 25, 50, 75, 100 which leaves room for the last label. >> >> ------------------------------------- >> David L Carlson >> Department of Anthropology >> Texas A&M University >> College Station, TX 77840-4352 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Fisher Dennis >> Sent: Friday, May 1, 2015 9:11 AM >> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch >> Subject: [R] Missing axis labels >> >> R 3.2.0 >> OS X >> This is a general question, not specific to OS X. >> >> Colleagues >> >> Often, one or more values on an axis will be omitted, presumably in order to >> prevent overlap. However, there are situations where I would like to >> override that omission. Sample code: >> pdf("labels.pdf", width=3, height=3) >> plot(0:100, 0:100) >> graphics.off() >> Here, 100 is omitted from the x-axis and 20, 60, and 100 from the y-axis. >> >> Is there is automated way to detect which values will be omitted (i.e., >> without seeing the graphic)? >> >> If so, I see two options: >> 1. change the font size >> 2. force the entry, e.g., axis(1, 100, at=100) >> >> Dennis >> >> >> Dennis Fisher MD >> P < (The "P Less Than" Company) >> Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) >> Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) >> www.PLessThan.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
