[R] Computing line= for mtext

[Greg Snow]

I would use the regular text function instead of mtext (remembering to
set par(xpd=...)), then use the grconvertX and grconvertY functions to
find the location to plot at (possibly adding in the results from
strwidth or stheight).

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> 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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