[R] Spacing and margins in plot

[Raubertas, Richard]

You can do this with the 'mgp' argument to par()  (see ?par).
For example, I find par(mgp=c(2, 0.75, 0)) (which puts the
axis label on line 2 and the axis values on line 0.75) nicely
"tightens up" the space around a plot.

Rich Raubertas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Earl F. Glynn
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Spacing and margins in plot
> 
> 
> "Chris Wallace" <c.wallace at qmul.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:m3wtm0502o.fsf at qmul.ac.uk...
> 
> > how about
> > plot(..., xlab="")
> > title(xlab="label text", line=2)
> 
> Yes, Chris, I like your idea, especially when I can "fix" 
> both X and Y axes
> at the same time:
> 
>   plot(0, xlab="",ylab="")
>   title(xlab="X axis", ylab="Y axis", line=2)
> 
> I'd prefer a way to set the axis title line at the same time 
> I change the
> mar parameters, but it's not a big deal.
> 
> Thanks.
> efg
> 
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