r boxplot倾斜标签x轴

时间:2013-09-07 07:13:33

标签: r layout boxplot axis-labels

如何在r中旋转盒子图的x轴标签?我知道要使用哪些代码但我无法应用它:

text(**????**, par("usr")[3] - 0.25, srt = 45, adj = 1, labels = labels, xpd = TRUE)

哪里有变量,我有问号?我创建了这个箱图:

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使用此代码:

soil=read.csv("soil_temp_boxplot.csv", header=TRUE, sep=";")    
tiff("soil_boxplot.tiff")
par(mar=c(5.5,3.5,0.5,0.5))
labels<-paste(c("RB-GL830-[16]-10","RB-GL830-[16]-30", "SB-GL834-[11]-10","SB-GL834-[11]-30", "RB-GL843-[17]-10","RB-GL843-[17]-30","SB-GL864-[12]-10","SB-GL864-[12]-30","SB-GL989-[10]-30", "RB-F844-[18]-10", "RB-F844-[18]-30", "SBB-F-864-[14]-10","SB-F991-[13]-10", "SB-F991-[13]-30"))
boxplot(soil$rb.gl.10.830.16, soil$rb.gl.30.830.16, soil$sb.gl.10.834.11, soil$sb.gl.30.834.11, soil$rb.gl.10.843.17, soil$rb.gl.30.843.17, soil$sb.gl.10.864.12, soil$sb.gl.30.864.12, soil$sb.gl.30.989.10, soil$rb.f.10.844.18, soil$rb.f.30.844.18, soil$sbb.f.10.864.14, soil$sb.f.10.991.13, soil$sb.f.30.991.13, yaxt="n", col=c("darkolivegreen1","darkolivegreen4","darkolivegreen1","darkolivegreen4","darkolivegreen1","darkolivegreen4","darkolivegreen1","darkolivegreen4","darkolivegreen1","burlywood2","burlywood4","burlywood2","burlywood2", "burlywood4"))
axis(1, labels = TRUE)
axis(2, c(0, 8, c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6,7)), las=1)
text(labels, par("usr")[3] - 0.25, srt = 45, adj = 1, labels = labels, xpd = TRUE)
mtext(2, text="Soil Temperature [°C]", line=2.2)
mtext(1, text="Location", line=4.5)
dev.off()

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:11)

关注原始text表达式的替代方法:

par(mar=c(6, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1))

labels <- paste(c("RB-GL830-[16]-10", 
                  "RB-GL830-[16]-30",
                  "SB-GL834-[11]-10",
                  "SB-GL834-[11]-30",
                  "RB-GL843-[17]-10",
                  "RB-GL843-[17]-30"))

boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays,
        col = "lightgray", xaxt = "n",  xlab = "")

# x axis with ticks but without labels
axis(1, labels = FALSE)

# Plot x labs at default x position
text(x =  seq_along(labels), y = par("usr")[3] - 1, srt = 45, adj = 1,
     labels = labels, xpd = TRUE)

为什么要将x = seq_along(labels)用于标签位置? x中的text是放置标签的坐标向量。如果你看?boxplot,你会发现at参数是一个“数字向量,给出了应该绘制箱图的位置[...];默认为1:n,其中n是数字盒子。“由于我们未在at调用中指定boxplot参数,因此将使用默认的“1:n位置”。框的数量当然是解释变量的级别数,@ Josh O'Brien在他的回答中使用了这些级别。为了向您展示替代方案,我使用了您自定义的标签向量(当然,其长度必须与因子级别的长度相同)。 seq_along生成从1到length参数的常规序列,对应于“默认为1:n”at位置。

附注:您的数据似乎是“宽”格式。在R的许多实例中,以“长”格式存储数据更方便。在plot函数中,您只需要指定x变量(例如位置)和y变量(例如土壤温度),而不是为每个x级别指定数据。 enter image description here

答案 1 :(得分:2)

查看plotrix包中的staxlab函数,它使这个(和另一个)相当直接。