[R] Positioning of axis titles

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Uwe Ligges wrote:

>
>
> Nicky Chorley wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have created a plot using filled.contour() and have the problem that
>> one of the axis titles and an axis label are overlapping. I have tried
>> changing par()$mgp (with, e.g. par(mgp=c(4,1,0)) ), but this just
>> makes the title go off the screen. I can't work out how to make the
>> plot take up less space in the window, so I can hopefully change mgp
>> and sort the problem.

To answer:

>> Is changing mgp the only way to position axis titles/labels?

No.  They are plotted by title(), and its help page indicates the argument 
'line'.  (Use R 2.7.2 RC or R-devel to get a fuller description.)

> Increase the margins as well, default is:
>  par("mar"=c(5,4,4,1)+.1)

You will need to do that in any case.

>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Nicky Chorley
>> 
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