Hello, I've been looking through ?phantom and ?expression and this forum for examples of how I might be able to manipulate some of the names that appear on the y-axis of the barplot below. For example, the "gw" in "ECgw" would appear as a subscript...or "qr" would be the theta symbol followed by subscript "r". My attempts haven't even come close to what I'm after. I could switch to ?text or ?mtext, but thought for positioning purposes it would be easier to do it with names.arg in the barplot function call.
Thanks, Eric base.dat.sel2<-read.table(textConnection("base.dat.Covariate base.dat.US.Number.Observations base.dat.US.Num.Obs.to.Achieve.Starting.Residual base.dat.US.Percent.Reduction.in.EM38.Surveys base.dat.DS.Number.Observations base.dat.DS.Num.Obs.to.Achieve.Starting.Residual base.dat.DS.Percent.Reduction.in.EM38.Surveys Baseline 391 391 NA 281 281 NA WTD 391 315 0.194 281 210 0.253 ECgw 391 362 0.074 281 280 0.004 SM 391 349 0.107 281 280 0.004 WTD_ECgw 391 300 0.233 281 209 0.256 WTD_SM 391 286 0.269 281 210 0.253 ECgw_SM 391 318 0.187 281 280 0.004 WTD_ECgw_SM 391 269 0.312 281 210 0.253 Sand 391 359 0.082 281 279 0.007 Silt 391 369 0.056 281 280 0.001 Clay 391 370 0.054 281 269 0.043 WTD_ECgw_SM_Sand 391 263 0.327 281 181 0.356 qr 391 360 0.079 281 270 0.038 Ks 391 370 0.054 281 276 0.017 qr_Ks 391 358 0.084 281 271 0.035 WTD_ECgw_SM_qr 391 261 0.332 281 188 0.331 WTD_ECgw_SM_Ks 391 260 0.335 281 205 0.270"),header=T) closeAllConnections() par(mar=c(3,15,2,1)) barplot(base.dat.sel2$base.dat.US.Num.Obs.to.Achieve.Starting.Residual[order(base.dat.sel2$base.dat.US.Num.Obs.to.Achieve.Starting.Residual,decreasing=F)], names.arg=base.dat.sel2$base.dat.Covariate[order(base.dat.sel2$base.dat.US.Num.Obs.to.Achieve.Starting.Residual,decreasing=F)], col="grey",horiz=T,las=1,xlim=c(0,450),yaxs="i",cex.axis=1.2,cex.names=1.1) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Formatting-names-arg-in-barplot-tp3078861p3078861.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.