Hi all, I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a problem in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of the screen because they overlap. Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about: http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf As you can see only half the array labels are visible. Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that they vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it somewhere before but don't know how to do it... Thanks, -Paul.

> Paul Geeleher > To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > > Hi all, > > I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a > problem in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of > the screen because they overlap. > > Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about: > http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf > > As you can see only half the array labels are visible. > > Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that > they vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it > somewhere before but don't know how to do it... Have you tried par(las=2)? (see ?par) -Eric This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}}

Perfect! Thanks alot I thought it was something small like that... -Paul. On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Artur Veloso <abveloso at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > Paul, > > try adding "las=2" to your boxplot function call. > > Cheers, > Artur > > boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, col = "lightgray",las=2) > > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher at="" gmail.com=""> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a problem > > in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of the screen > > because they overlap. > > > > Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about: > > http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf > > > > As you can see only half the array labels are visible. > > > > Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that they > > vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it somewhere before but > > don't know how to do it... > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Paul. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > >

On Friday 25 April 2008 15:48:34 Paul Geeleher wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a problem > in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of the screen > because they overlap. > > Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about: > http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf > > As you can see only half the array labels are visible. > > Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that they > vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it somewhere before but > don't know how to do it... boxplot(len ~ dose, data = ToothGrowth,las=2) But I think you could get problems with the margins. Then you have to set par(mar=c(10, 4, 4, 2) +0.1). HTH, ido

Dear Paul, did you try the parameter las from par ? par(las=2) before calling the boxplot command should turn the labels. If the labels do not fit and need adjustment you can add the parameter cex (have a look at ?par). Best regards Sylvia Am Freitag, den 25.04.2008, 14:48 +0100 schrieb Paul Geeleher: > Hi all, > > I want to output some boxplots as PDF files, but I'm having a problem > in that you can't see all the labels at the bottom of the screen > because they overlap. > > Have a look here if you want to see what I'm talking about: > http://frink.nuigalway.ie/~pat/boxplot.pdf > > As you can see only half the array labels are visible. > > Is there a way of flipping these labels 90 degrees, so that they > vertical, and hopefully all visible? I've seen it somewhere before but > don't know how to do it... > > Thanks, > > -Paul. > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor