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

[Dave Schruth]

mgp[2]!   That's exactly what I wanted!  Thank you Vicki!


#final solution:
plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n')
axis(side=2, las=1, hadj=1,  tck=-.01, cex.axis=.6, mgp=c(3,.5,0))

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Lancaster, Vicki
<Vicki.Lancaster at fda.hhs.gov> wrote:
> Try using mgp:
>
> From help(par)
>
> mgp
> The margin line (in mex units) for the axis title, axis labels and axis line. Note that mgp[1] affects title whereas mgp[2:3] affect axis. The default is c(3, 1, 0).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dave Schruth
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: Jim Lemon
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Rotated, Right-Justified Labels for Shortened Tick Marks
>
> 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
>
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