[R] Position of y axis labels in plot graphic

[Nicolai Schneider]

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave my me advice.

Btw, the most elegant solution came from a German R user who "simply" extended the plot.zoo function by the parameter line (ie the distance of the y labels from the y axis).

Here the URL of his posting and the code, unfortunately his comments are written in German only:

http://forum.r-statistik.de/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2819

Thanks again,
Nico

Am 11.09.2012 um 13:08 schrieb Jose Iparraguirre:

> Hi Nico,
> 
> Far from the most elegant solution, at least it works and will give you plenty of freedom to choose where to place the labels:
> 
> 
>> plot.zoo(x, type="l", main="", xlab="", ylab="",yaxt="n", xaxs="i"); title(main="Title", xlab="index")
>> mtext(names(x)[1],2,line=1,at=0.9)
>> mtext(names(x)[2],2,line=1,at=0.6)
>> mtext(names(x)[3],2,line=1,at=0.35)
>> mtext(names(x)[4],2,line=1,at=0.1)
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> José
> 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [R] Position of y axis labels in plot graphic
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I´m really sorry to bother you with this problem but it took me a whole day searching for a solution.
> 
> I want the y axis labels positioned closer to the y axis, by default they are partly outside the window.
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
> x <- as.zoo(EuStockMarkets)
> 
> par(las=1)
> 
> plot.zoo(x, type="l", main="", xlab="", yaxt="n", xaxs="i")
> title(main="Title", xlab="index")
> 
> par(las=0)
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> Best,
> Nico
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