[R] Rotated, Right-Justified Labels for Shortened Tick Marks

[Dave Schruth]

Jim,

This was the solution I was hoping to avoid having to implement... but
thank you it does what I was looking for visually (except for the
las=1 rotation).   Is there no other parameter *within* axis that I
could adjust?  If not, it seems like axis could be rewritten to have
the axis tick label positions move in concert with the shortening tick
marks...

-D

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Jim Lemon <jim at bitwrit.com.au> wrote:
> On 01/13/2011 11:59 AM, dms wrote:
>>
>> Hello R-help,
>>
>> I'm trying to make a fairly simple plot axis that goes something like
>> this:
>>
>> plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n')
>> axis(side=2, las=1, hadj=1,  tck=-.01, cex.axis=.6)
>>
>> ...but as you can see, the labels are not close enough to the y-axis
>> (where I want them... to save space for publication).
>>
>> Can anybody help me figure out how to move these labels over the the
>> right a bit?
>>
> Hi D,
> Try this:
>
> plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n')
> axis(side=2,at=seq(-10,10,by=5),labels=rep("",5),tck=-.01)
> par(cex=0.6)
> mtext(seq(-10,10,by=5),at=seq(-10,10,by=5),side=2,line=0.3,cex=0.6)
> par(cex=1)
>
> Jim