[R] manipulating axis labels in grid and lattice

[Daniel Mastropietro]

When I used my own axis labels in a plot I used the mtext() function with 
option 'adj' to specify the distance from the axis, and 'las' to specify 
the orientation. An example is the following:

mtext(labels , side=1 , at=1:3 , las=3 , adj=2 , cex=0.7);

Number 3 in 'las' means "labels perpendicular to the axis". Number 2 in 
'adj' needs not be an integer, and it was set by trial and error.

I hope this helps.

At 03:56 PM 1/7/2002 -0700, Carlo C. Maley wrote:
>I am trying to use wireframe at the moment and the axis labels are 
>overlapping with the tick labels.  It seems that gpar does not yet utilize 
>the mgp argument.  Is there anyway to manipulate the position of the axis 
>labels?
>
>The best I can manage so far is to manipulate the cex so as to shrink 
>everything down.
>
>thanks, Carlo Maley
>
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>Dr. Carlo C. Maley
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