Re: overlapping xlabels in plot

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Andrew Nikitin <nsg21@...> wrote:
First of all, thank you for your reply.


> 1 and 2 is out of the question, since both are not supported by the plot
> (I live in J6.02, not sure whether the new package has further development).
>

That's too bad. How is plot's drawtext implemented in the low level? It
seems like to call 11!:0 y. Is there any possibility to implement a new
feature easily?


This leaves you pretty much with 3 or 4.
>

Yeah. As I experimented with option 3, which is making the graph big
enough, the labels get too small to read them.

What I did with my plot(a sorted histogram for a categorical variable) was:
   pd 'labelfont Arial 5'
   pd 'pdf c:\temp\histogram.pdf 1400 200'

As you can imagine it, it becomes difficult to switch between looking at
the forest(overall patterns) and the trees(figuring out which data it is)
with this width-long graph. I'm not so satisfied with the result.

I also use something of 1.1 -- if a category has long labels, I place them
> on Y axis, this has effect of labels being perpendicular to the axis and
> occupying less space along the axis.
>
>
That's a clever idea, but looking at a 90 degrees rotated histogram is
unnatural to many people. :(


> I am not sure staggering is such a good idea. The axis in the exmaple in
> the link does not look easy to read. But maybe there is more than one thing
> wrong with that exmaple and has nothing to do with staggering per se.
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