[R] Computing line= for mtext

[ilai]

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Hi Rich and Peter,
>
> What I am trying to do is the right-justify a vector of numbers to the right
> of the y-axis so that the leftmost digit of all of the numbers is one
> character to the right of the axis line.  axis() plots tick marks and

No it doesn't (not always)

> left-justifies the numbers.

For axis(4). If you really want right justify on the right hand side,
you could use axis(2) with negative line numbers (device size
dependent). Or you could try something like

plot(1:20)
axis(2,at=seq(1,20,4),labels=T,tick=F,las=T,pos=c(22.25,1))

Hope this is getting there (after only 6 messages...)

Elai

>
> Peter's idea:
> ---------
> Since you're setting your right margin to 5, why
> not just
>
> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=5, adj=1, line = 5, cex=1)
> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=7, adj=1, line = 5,  cex=2)
>
> i.e. set the line argument to the right margin?
> ---------
> comes close to what I'm trying to do but I haven't found out how to compute
> "line" from the maximum width over all the strings in the vector being
> plotted vertically, and I'm not sure it scales properly for different cex=.
> strwidth(s, units='inches')/par('cin')[1] doesn't seem to be a complete
> solution.
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>
> Richard M. Heiberger wrote
>>
>> Frank,
>>
>> this is it.  It uses Peter's idea.
>>
>>  plot(1:10)
>>  axis(side=2, 1:10, las=1, line=-31.5, lwd=0)
>>  axis(side=4, 1:10, las=1, labels=FALSE)
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell@>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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