How can I make my vertical labels fit within my plotting window?

Question

I\'m creating a histogram in R which displays the frequency of several events in a vector. Each event is represented by an integer in the range [1, 9]. I\'m displaying the label

Answer 1

Look at help(par), in particular fields mar (for the margin) and oma (for outer margin). It may be as simple as

par(mar=c(5,3,1,1))   # extra large bottom margin
hist(vector, axes = FALSE, breaks = chartBreaks)
axis(1, at = tickMarks, labels = eventTypes, las = 2, tick = FALSE)