On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 18:12 +0100, Cornelis de Gier wrote:
> I'm looking for an answer to a similar question:
>
> years <- as.factor(sort(rep(1987:2006,20)))
> values <- rnorm(1:400,0,10)
> plot(years,values)
>
> results in 20 boxplots with x axis labels unreadable because there are
> too many of them. How do I reduce the number of x axis labels?
Hmm, if I follow that in an R session, I get very readable x-axis labels
as not all boxplots are labelled - only those that can be accommodated
given the current size of the device.
You could try:
plot(years,values, las = 3)
to rotate the year labels. If your real example has very long labels,
then you will need to create more margin space, see ?par
Alternative, you can cook your own axis:
bxp.res <- boxplot(values ~ years, axes = FALSE)
## axis side 2
axis(2)
## choose every third year
year.want <- seq(from = 1, by = 3, length.out = length(unique(years)))
## draw axis, label at correct locations with correct year label
axis(1, at = year.want, labels = unique(years)[year.want])
## draw the frame
box()
HTH
G
>
> Regards,
>
> Cornelis
>
>
> 2008/1/7, Jeff D. Hamann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I apologize if this is somewhere in the archives, but I can't seem to find
> > a solution to this question.
> >
> > I've been trying to plot a bwplot:
> >
> > print(
> > bwplot( n.pareto ~ as.factor(gen) | mut.rate * n.pop,
> > data=p6,
> > horizontal=FALSE,
> > box.ratio=0.75,
> > cex=0.6,
> > xlim=c(-1,51),
> > ylim=c(-1,500),
> > layout=c(3,3),
> > index.cond=list(c(1,2,3),c(3,2,1)),
> > panel = function(...) {
> > panel.grid(v = -1, h = -1)
> > cex=0.05
> > panel.bwplot(...)
> > panel.abline(h=486,lty=2)
> > },
> > main="Non-dominated Pareto Optimal Solutions",
> > ylab="Non-dominated Solutions in the Pareto Archive",
> > xlab="Generation" )
> > )
> >
> > which works "fine", but... I have tried almost every combination of
> > pertinent arguments for reducing the number of ticks/lables while still
> > plotting all the boxes in each panel. The levels of "gen" are:
> >
> > > levels( as.factor(p6$gen ))
> > [1] "20" "40" "60" "80" "100" "120" "140" "160"
> > [9] "180" "200" "220" "240" "260" "280" "300" "320"
> > [17] "340" "360" "380" "400" "420" "440" "460" "480"
> > [25] "500" "520" "540" "560" "580" "600" "620" "640"
> > [33] "660" "680" "700" "720" "740" "760" "780" "800"
> > [41] "820" "840" "860" "880" "900" "920" "940" "960"
> > [49] "980" "1000"
> > >
> >
> > which creates a "smear" of labels across the x axis. My problem is that I
> > would like to only print five or 10 of the labels (i.e.
> > 20,100,200,...,900) or something to make the labels readable and still
> > plot all the boxes in each panel.
> >
> > Is there something I'm missing as a result conditioning on two factors. I
> > feel like such a newbie about this... ugh... Any hints, please?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff.
> >
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