Rotated, Right-Justified Labels for Shortened Tick Marks

Try using mgp:

From help(par)

mgp
The margin line (in mex units) for the axis title, axis labels and axis line. Note that mgp[1] affects title whereas mgp[2:3] affect axis. The default is c(3, 1, 0).

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dave Schruth
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:01 AM
To: Jim Lemon
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Rotated, Right-Justified Labels for Shortened Tick Marks

Jim,

This was the solution I was hoping to avoid having to implement... but
thank you it does what I was looking for visually (except for the
las=1 rotation). ? Is there no other parameter *within* axis that I
could adjust? ?If not, it seems like axis could be rewritten to have
the axis tick label positions move in concert with the shortening tick
marks...

-D

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Jim Lemon <jim at bitwrit.com.au> wrote:

On 01/13/2011 11:59 AM, dms wrote:

Hello R-help,

I'm trying to make a fairly simple plot axis that goes something like
this:

plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n')
axis(side=2, las=1, hadj=1, ?tck=-.01, cex.axis=.6)

...but as you can see, the labels are not close enough to the y-axis
(where I want them... to save space for publication).

Can anybody help me figure out how to move these labels over the the
right a bit?

Hi D,
Try this:

plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n')
axis(side=2,at=seq(-10,10,by=5),labels=rep("",5),tck=-.01)
par(cex=0.6)
mtext(seq(-10,10,by=5),at=seq(-10,10,by=5),side=2,line=0.3,cex=0.6)
par(cex=1)

Jim