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Message-ID: <DEB77E3E-BE4E-49CF-98A9-92A59316EB47@nicebread.de>
Date: 2012-11-23T07:40:46Z
From: Felix Schönbrodt
Subject: [lattice] Increase distance between tick labels and ticks in wireframe plot ("pad")
In-Reply-To: <50AED98D.8050904@ucalgary.ca>

Thanks - that's the solution!
Felix

Am 23.11.2012 um 03:03 schrieb Peter Ehlers <ehlers at ucalgary.ca>:

> On 2012-11-22 01:16, Felix Sch?nbrodt wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I try to increase the distance between tick labels and ticks in a lattice wireframe plot. Here's a minimal example:
>> 
>> ## Minimal example
>> x <- y <- z <- c(1,2,3)
>> df <- data.frame(x, y, z)
>> wireframe(z ~ x*y, df,  scales = list(arrows = FALSE, col = "black", font = 1, tck=0.6))
>> 
>> 
>> I tried the axis.components option (http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Lattice-distance-of-tick-labels-from-axis-line-tp3693014p3693014.html). This works for xyplot, but *not* for wireframe:
>> 
>> xyplot(z ~ x, df,  scales = list(arrows = FALSE, col = "black", font = 1, tck=0.6), par.settings=list(axis.components=list(left=list(pad1=2))))
>> 
>> wireframe(z ~ x*y, df,  scales = list(arrows = FALSE, col = "black", font = 1, tck=0.6), par.settings=list(axis.components=list(left=list(pad1=2))))
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to pad the axis labels in wireframe plots?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Felix
> 
> I think that you want the 'distance=' argument to scales (which is
> documented in ?wireframe).
> 
> Try this:
> wireframe(z ~ x*y, df,
>          scales = list(arrows = FALSE,
>                        col = "black",
>                        font = 1,
>                        tck = c(0.8, 0.6, 0.4),
>                        distance =c(2, 5, 8)))
> 
> Adjust as you prefer.
> 
> Peter Ehlers
> 
>