Hi Petr, thanks a lot for your reply. Unfortunately, your suggestion does not work for me. I even tried larger boxes such as 15,15 , but the result does not change. Is there some setting that I am missing? However, once more thanks a lot for your help. f.
On 12 October 2011 15:58, Petr PIKAL <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: > > > > Dear R-listers, > > > > I have a little problem with a boxplot and I hope you can help me > figuring > > it out. > > I'll try to make up some data to illustrate the issue. Sorry, if my > > procedures look naive, but these are my first steps in R. Any comments > > and/or suggestions are very welcome. > > > > let's create a vector var1: > > var1 <- rnorm(100) > > > > and 5 five logical vectors. In this case the vectors don't mean > anything, I > > just need 5 vectors to illustrate my problem. Each of the 5 vectors > > identifies a geographic area of my interest. > > med <- var1 < -0.7275 > > anglo <- var1 > -0.7275 & var1 < -0.09402 > > scand <- var1 > -0.09402 > > ceast <- var1 < -0.7275 & var1 > -4.10500 > > seast <- var1 < 2.5 & var1 > 0.49 > > > > and let's put all the vectors together in a data frame: > > data <- data.frame(anglo, med, scand, seast, ceast, var1) > > > > I wish to compare the samples of each region with respect to variable > var1. > > Therefore I run: > > > > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > > var1[seast==1]) > > > > Let's make the chart clearer and let's add meaningful labels to the > x-axis. > > Hence, I create a new vector containing a label for each of my 5 > dummies: > > > > vec <- > > > c("Mediterranean","Anglo-Saxon","Scandinavian","Centre-East","South-East") > > > > Now the boxplot is: > > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > > var1[seast==1], names = vec) > > This gives me output with all labels > pdf("test.pdf", 8,8) > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > + var1[seast==1], names = vec) > dev.off() > > If you want labels to rotate in let say 45 degrees you need to use srt > parameter to text and allow text to be written to outer margin on defined > places. Maybe some package can do it itself (try plotrix) or go through > http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/, maybe you find some solution. > > Regards > Petr > > > > > > As you can see, some of the labels disappear because of the size of the > > chart (I suppose). I tried to solve the problem by changing the > orientation > > of the labels with the las = 3 option (see below): > > boxplot(var1[med==1], var1[anglo==1], var1[scand==1], var1[ceast==1], > > var1[seast==1], names = vec, las = 3) > > > > but the problem is not solved: the names are too long and stand > partially > > out of the figure. > > How could I solve this problem? I have been longly google-ing and > looking > > into reference manuals, but with no success. In Stata a simple way could > be > > just bending each label by 45 degrees, but it seems boxplot does not > allow > > such a solution. Furthermore I did not manage to enlarge my figure to > place > > everything in. > > Thanks a lot in advance for all your support. > > Best wishes, > > f. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.