Dear Jim, Your solution works very well. I am an R beginner, and I did not realize that I could modify a function in a package. Thank you very much.
Regards, Peng On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 01/21/2012 01:08 AM, baydap wrote: >> >> Hi. I have a question about the taylor.diagram() in plotrix package. How >> can >> I control the label "correlation"? In the embedded figure you can see the >> label "correlation" is too close to the ticks. How can I move it and make >> it >> larger? >> Another problem is the labels "0.95" and "0.99" are too close to the >> plotting area. I do not find any method to control it. >> >> I have been struggling in this problem for a long time. Thanks a lot if >> anyone can help. >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4313328/taylor.png >> > Hi baydap, > I'm not sure why the labels are coming out so close to the outer > circumference, it may be your plotting device. I have noticed that text size > and spacing changes quite a bit between devices. The quickest way out is to > alter the code a bit. Change these lines: > > text(cos(c(bigtickangles,acos(c(0.95,0.99))))*1.05*maxsd, > sin(c(bigtickangles,acos(c(0.95,0.99))))*1.05*maxsd, > c(seq(0.1,0.9,by=0.1),0.95,0.99)) > text(maxsd*0.75,maxsd*0.8,"Correlation") > > to: > > text(cos(c(bigtickangles,acos(c(0.95,0.99))))*1.1*maxsd, > sin(c(bigtickangles,acos(c(0.95,0.99))))*1.05*maxsd, > c(seq(0.1,0.9,by=0.1),0.95,0.99)) > text(maxsd*0.85,maxsd*0.8,"Correlation") > > change the function name to something like taylor.diagram2 and source the > new function after loading plotrix and before running your code. > > Jim ______________________________________________ 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.
