[R] Computing line= for mtext

[Frank Harrell]

Rich's pointers deals with lattice/grid graphics.  Does anyone have a
solution for base graphics?
Thanks
Frank

Richard M. Heiberger wrote
> 
> Frank,
> 
> This can be done directly with a variant of the panel.axis function.
> See function panel.axis.right in the HH package.  This was provided for me
> by David Winsemius in response to my query on this list in October 2011
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/292806.html
> 
> The email thread also includes comments by Deepayan Sarkar and Paul
> Murrell.
> 
> Rich
> 
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell@>wrote:
> 
>> I want to right-justify a vector of numbers in the right margin of a
>> low-level plot.  For this I need to compute the line parameter to give to
>> mtext.  Is this the correct scalable calculation?
>>
>> par(mar=c(4,3,1,5)); plot(1:20)
>> s <- 'abcde'; w=strwidth(s, units='inches')/par('cin')[1]
>> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=5, adj=1, line=w-.5, cex=1)
>> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=7, adj=1, line=2*(w-.5), cex=2)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Frank
>>
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