Hello, I'm wondering how to set a value of mar ( par( mar=c(.......)) ) in order to allow labels to be visible in barplot. Is there any relation between the number of characters in a label and the second value of mar? Look at my example.
x <- seq(20, 100, by=15) ety <- rep( "Effect on treatment group", times=length(x)) barplot(x, names.arg=ety, las=1, horiz=TRUE) Labels are not visible. But trial and error method with the second mar argument I get what I want. par(mar=c(3,12,2,1), cex=0.8) barplot(x, names.arg=ety, las=1, horiz=TRUE) I would like something like that: second.mar = max( nchar(ety) )/2 Taking the opportunity I have 2 another question: 1. Space between labels and bars is too big - how to change it to the value of 1 character? 2. In the example above the x axis is too short. How to make R draw a line little longer then maximum bar length. I know that I could set xlim=c(0,max(x)) but because of main increase equals 20 and the last value 95 it doesn't solve the problem. The increase is ok. but only line should be longer. Thank you Robert ______________________________________________ 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.
