On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another idea is not to show every label so as to provide more room for > the ones you are showing. This works fine for numbers or dates, but > not so well for disparate categories. > > Yeah, I thought about it, but it doesn't apply in this case. The xlabels are disparate categories sorted by their frequencies. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Andrew Nikitin <ns...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >> From: June Kim (???) <junea...@gmail.com> > >> When there are overlapping xlabels in plot, what are the options to > resolve > >> this situation? > >> > >> Common solutions are 1) rotating the xlabels by 90(or 45) degrees, 2) > >> staggering labels[1], 3) making the graph big enough so that the labels > >> don't overlap, 4) abbreviate all x labels and provide a legend for them. > >> > > > > 1 and 2 is out of the question, since both are not supported by the plot > (I live in J6.02, not sure whether the new package has further development). > > This leaves you pretty much with 3 or 4. > > I also use something of 1.1 -- if a category has long labels, I place > them on Y axis, this has effect of labels being perpendicular to the axis > and occupying less space along the axis. > > > > I am not sure staggering is such a good idea. The axis in the exmaple in > the link does not look easy to read. But maybe there is more than one thing > wrong with that exmaple and has nothing to do with staggering per se. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
