[R] Boxplot names

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2012-07-19 06:58, Jessica Streicher wrote:
> When i make Boxplots with a lot of boxes, the names of them get only written down every second "column".
> Since they aren't in any way ordered, you don't see anymore to what they belong.
>
> example:
>
> l<-rep(list(1:5),20); boxplot(l,names=sample(20,1:20))
>
> Is there a way to show them all, or do i have to split the plots?

[Actually, your example is not reproducible without error - see
?sample.]

Two solutions:
1. use the cex.axis argument to reduce the label size.
2. check out the staxlab() function in the plotrix package.

Peter Ehlers