Bendy like spaghetti :-) Thanks, Jim. I wasn't aware of plotrix, and it does seem to be a cornucopia of useful, graphical stuff.
In this case, my quest for rotating characters stemmed from what you might call a PHB request that I was eventually able to work around. I posed my original question here just out of curiosity (and frustration, I guess). -- Mike On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > The arctext function (plotrix) does something similar, and the code > could be modified to do what you request. If you do want a working > function, it wouldn't be too hard to program. > > Jim > > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Michael Hannon > <jmhannon.ucda...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, folks. This is an issue that we've defined away, but I recently >> thought it would be useful to rotate characters in some marginal text >> in a base-R plot. I made a few stabs on using the "crt" parameter but >> was unsuccessful. >> >> I'm deliberately omitting details of my attempts, as I want just to >> focus on the following: if you know of any working example of the use >> of that parameter. will you please send me a link to it? Thanks. >> >> (Note that there are *many* links to Cathode Ray Tubes,) >> >> -- Mike >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.