On May 23, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Adrienne Keller wrote:
> I am making a barplot using barplot2 from gplots and would like to
> format the names of my categorical variables (tree species) on the x-
> axis so that the genus name is above the species name (to save room).
> My code so far is:
>
> speciesnames<-c("Dialium guianensis", "Inga alba", "Tachigali
> versicolor", "Brosimum utile", "Caryocar costaricense", "Castilla
> tunu", "Otoba novagranatensis", "Pourouma bicolor", "Socratea
> exorrhiza")
> barplot2(meanapAprilactivity, names.arg=speciesnames, col=columncolor,
> xlab="Species", ylab="Soil acid phosphatase activity (nmol/h/g)",
> plot.ci=T, ci.l=apAprilminusordered, ci.u=apAprilplusordered,
> cex.lab=1.5)
>
> For example, I want 'Dialium' to be located above 'guianensis' on the
> x-axis. Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrienne Keller
Hi,
Just replace the space between the names with a newline character ('\n'):
barplot(1:9, names.arg = gsub(" ", "\\\n", speciesnames),
cex.names = 0.5)
That will put the labels on two lines.
See ?gsub and note that I used 3 '\' preceding the 'n'.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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