Sean Carmody wrote:
Thanks very much John, that works. I had tried using las=1 inside the
dotchart function itself, but it seems to be one of those occasions where
the par parameter is over-ridden by the main plotting function. You can see
the results here: http://www.stubbornmule.net/2009/10/asylum-seekers/
Now if only I can nudge the labels a little further to the right...
Regards,
Sean.
Try the axis() call with arguments tick=FALSE and line=-0.5 or
whatever nudge value you like.
-Peter Ehlers
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:05 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Oops replying to the wrong post but anyway
does this do what you want?
aa <- c(3,6,3,5,8)
lbs <- c('cat','goat', 'elephant', 'horse', 'whale')
dotchart(aa, pch=(16), col = 1:5, main="A Dotchart")
axis(side = 2, seq_along(aa), lbs, las=1)
--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Sean Carmody <seancarm...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Sean Carmody <seancarm...@gmail.com>
Subject: [R] How to right-align labels in dotchart
To: "R Help Mailing List" <r-help@r-project.org>
Received: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:51 PM
I have only just discovered the joys
of the dotchart (since I am reading
William Cleveland's
--
Sean Carmody
The Stubborn Mule
http://www.stubbornmule.net
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