R Draw All Axis Labels (Prevent Some From Being Skipped)

Question

When I manually add the following labels with (axis(1, at=1:27, labels=labs[0:27])):

> labs[0:27]
 [1] \"0\\n9.3%\"  \"1\\n7.6%\"  \"2\\n5.6%         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where I wanted to stagger the labels and get them to print without losing some. I created two sets of ticks showing second set below the other to make it look as if it staggers.

xaxis_stagger = function(positions,labels) {
  odd=labels[seq(1,length(labels),2)]
  odd_pos=positions[seq(1,length(positions),2)]
  even=labels[seq(2,length(labels),2)]  
  even_pos=positions[seq(2,length(positions),2)]
  axis(side=1,at=odd_pos,labels=odd)
  axis(side=1,at=even_pos,labels=even,padj=1.5)
}

So you give the positions where you want the ticks to be and the labels for those ticks and this would then re-organise it into two sets of axis and plot them on the original plot. Original plot would be done with xaxt="n".