axis() ignores supplied value of argument mgp[3]?
What is true is that the line is set before the inline setting of mgp is processed: it all depends on what 'supplied' means, and you supplied two values. This is changed in R-patched now.
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, J. R. M. Hosking wrote:
It seems that when an argument 'mgp' is supplied to axis(), the mgp[2] value (position of tick mark labels) is honoured but the mgp[3] value (position of axis line) is ignored. Example: plot(1:5, xaxt='n', ann=FALSE) par(mgp=c(0,2,1)) axis(1, at=2:4, mgp=c(0,-2,-3)) Axis line is plotted at margin line 1, tick mark labels at line -3. Is this a bug? J. R. M. Hosking
R.version
_ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 7.1 year 2008 month 06 day 23 svn rev 45970 language R version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
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