Hmm. Thanks, Paul. That would explain the dearth of examples. -- Mike
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Paul Murrell <p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > Hi > > I do not recall ever using crt. A grep of the source code suggests that no > user-level functions ever refer to it either. In other words, it appears to > be basically unimplemented. > > Specifically with regard to text in the margins of a base plot, in addition > to every function ignoring crt, only the text() function listens to srt (and > that draws in the plot region, not the margins); mtext() (for margin text) > only listens to las, so can only do horizontal or vertical. > > Paul > > > On 02/05/17 09:47, Michael Hannon wrote: >> >> Thanks, Bert. I *did* mean crt, and I did read (and re-read) the man >> page. What I'm lacking, and the only thing I'm asking for, is a >> working example of the use of that parameter. >> >> -- Mike >> >> >> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hard to know what you want or did without code. >>> >>> But, a guess: did you want the "srt" parameter and not "crt"? >>> >>> Of course, it's always useful to read the man page, in this case for >>> ?par, where it says: >>> >>> (for crt): "A numerical value specifying (in degrees) how **single >>> characters** should be rotated. It is unwise to expect values other >>> than multiples of 90 to work. Compare with srt which does string >>> rotation." [note: "string" = several characters = text] >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Bert >>> >>> Bert Gunter >>> >>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >>> and sticking things into it." >>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Michael Hannon >>> <jmhannon.ucda...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, folks. This is an issue that we've defined away, but I recently >>>> thought it would be useful to rotate characters in some marginal text >>>> in a base-R plot. I made a few stabs on using the "crt" parameter but >>>> was unsuccessful. >>>> >>>> I'm deliberately omitting details of my attempts, as I want just to >>>> focus on the following: if you know of any working example of the use >>>> of that parameter. will you please send me a link to it? Thanks. >>>> >>>> (Note that there are *many* links to Cathode Ray Tubes,) >>>> >>>> -- Mike >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>> 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. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > > -- > Dr Paul Murrell > Department of Statistics > The University of Auckland > Private Bag 92019 > Auckland > New Zealand > 64 9 3737599 x85392 > p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
