Brilliant, that's exactly what I needed. Thank you. The axis labels are duplicated on top and the bottom now though, but I'm sure there's a way to suppress them from appearing. On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:24 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Mark Aquino wrote: > >> Yes I understand what ?<text> means, I meant is it possible to use this >> function (as an argument) with heatmap.2, but I learned I can use >> add.expr=mtext(....) to do that. However I'm not simply trying to add more >> text to the graph but rather move the display of the x-axis labels from the >> bottom of the chart to the top so the output would be more like: >> >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 >> --------------|1 >> |2 >> |3 >> |4 >> |5 > > The help page makes me think that repositioning the x-labels (which would > also require repositioning or suppressing the "upper" dendrogram) would > require hacking the function, since it sets up specific regions on the page > with layout(). You should provide a minimal example for other readers, but > I'm not going to proceed further since it is now clear that you are not just > trying to move the 'xlab' which was how I interpreted your initial problem > description. > > [ Assuming you have suppressed the column dendrogram, it may be a simple as > changing the 1 to 3 in this line of code: > > axis(1, 1:nc, labels = labCol, las = 2, line = -0.5, tick = 0, > cex.axis = cexCol) > ....] > > -- > David > > >> >> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:45 PM, David Winsemius wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Mark Aquino wrote: >>> >>>> Hey David, >>>> >>>> Thanks for answering, but can I use mtext with the heatmap.2 function? >>>> According to the description that's not one of the arguments it takes. >>> >>> It's not an argument. When someone types ?<something> it means to look at >>> the help page for the <something> function which will appear if you just >>> type ?<something> at the console. >>> >>> >>>> Sorry if these questions are trivial, I'm very new with R, basically being >>>> forced to learn it for work. >>>> >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Mark Aquino >>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:37 PM, David Winsemius wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 2, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Mark Aquino wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have what would seem to be a very simple problem but have been unable >>>>>> to find any way to go about solving it: >>>>>> I am using heatmap.2 to create a heatmap and by default the x axis label >>>>>> is at the bottom of the heatmap, I simply want to move the label to the >>>>>> top of the heatmap. >>>>> >>>>> ?mtext >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> David Winsemius, MD >>>>> West Hartford, CT >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> David Winsemius, MD >>> West Hartford, CT >>> >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > ______________________________________________ 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.
