Peter,
Thank you for your reply. That got me a lot closer. Now I just need to move the text down a bit and it will be perfect. Thank you for your suggestion of creating a reference to barplot and passing that as an argument into "text". That seems to have made the difference. Here is what I've ended up with so far: # Reference the following URL for information about rotating axis labels: # http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-create-rotated-axis-labels_003f # mar A numerical vector of the form c(bottom, left, top, right) which gives the number of lines # of margin to be specified on the four sides of the plot. The default is c(5, 4, 4, 2) + 0.1. par(mar = c(7, 4, 4, 2) + 0.1) barplot_reference<-barplot(WorldPhones[1,], ylim=c(0, 50000), axes=FALSE, ann=FALSE, col=terrain.colors(length(WorldPhones[1,])), xaxt = "n", xlab = "") # xpd A logical value or NA. If FALSE, all plotting is clipped to the plot region, if TRUE, # all plotting is clipped to the figure region, and if NA, all plotting is clipped to # the device region. text(barplot_reference, par("usr")[3] - 0.25, srt = 45, adj = 1, labels = as.character(colnames(WorldPhones)), xpd = TRUE) #axis(1, at = barplot_reference, labels = as.character(colnames(WorldPhones)), srt = 45, adj = 1) box() Any suggestions on adjusting the text down a bit is also greatly appreciated. Thank you again. ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Alspach <peter.alsp...@plantandfood.co.nz> To: Jason Rupert <jasonkrup...@yahoo.com>; R-help@r-project.org Sent: Tue, December 1, 2009 5:29:17 PM Subject: RE: [R] Aligning Diagonally Oriented Labels Under Bar Chart Tena koe Jason Is this an example of what you want? temp <- barplot(3:17) text(temp, rep(-0.5, length(3:17)), LETTERS[3:17], srt=45, adj=1) HTH .... Peter Alspach > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jason Rupert > Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:16 p.m. > To: R-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Aligning Diagonally Oriented Labels Under Bar Chart > > I searched the forms (i.e., R Search) and come up with the > following suggested link: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-can-I-create- > rotated-axis-labels_003f > > I tried to implement what I believe was being implied by that > URL and came up with the below: > > barplot(WorldPhones[1,], > ylim=c(0, 50000), > axes=FALSE, ann=FALSE, > col=terrain.colors(length(WorldPhones[1,])), > xaxt = "n", xlab = "") > > text(1:dim(WorldPhones)[1], par("usr")[3] - 0.1, srt = 45, adj = 1, > labels = as.character(colnames(WorldPhones)), xpd = TRUE) > > box() > > > Unfortunately the labels are not aligned with the appropriate > bars. I believe I am missing something small in order to > have the text properly aligned underneath the appropriate bars. > > Are there any suggestions for correcting this mis-alignment? > > Thank you again for any additional feedback, links, hints or > insights. > > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.