[R] Changing mtext direction, or using text for the margin?
Michael Rennie
mdrennie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 20:27:45 CET 2013
HA! Works perfectly!!! Thanks so much ilai.
ilai wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:52 AM, David Winsemius
> <dwinsemius at comcast.net <mailto:dwinsemius at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>
> If you are going that route you may want to look at the gridBase
> package.
>
> Yes for mixing base and grid graphics but IMHO overkill here.
> Replacing the last mtext line with
>
> grid::grid.text('dependent B', 0.985 , 0.5 , rot = 270)
>
> should take care of it (leaving exact placement and justification to
> the OP)
>
> cheers
>
> --
> David.
>
> Mike
>
> David Winsemius wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Michael Rennie wrote:
>
>
> Any thoughts on what that dirty hack might be or any
> leads on where to start? Perhaps a whole new plot
> region in the margin or something? Is that even
> possible? I'm having a difficult time imagining how I
> can do this.
>
>
> The `text` function accepts the 'xpd' argument for `par`.
>
> ?par
> ?text
>
> (Similar but not exactly the same as R-FAQ "7.27 How can I
> create rotated axis labels?")
>
> I'm not sure what sort of "dirt" Uwe was expecting, but
> I'm guessing he meant that you probably were not going to
> be getting exactly what you wanted with the first attempt
> and were going to need to adjust the locations "by hand"
> after digging around in the par documentation.
>
>
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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