axis label rotation

Hi

I recently switch over from Splus to R and I have not been able to
generate right axis labels that face inwards.  This is accomplished
in Splus with the command srt=270 but this option is not supported
in R.  In addition the par argument las=0 or 3 does not rotate the
right axis labels.

Unfortunately, R's axis() and mtext() functions only listen to par(las) to
determine text rotation (i.e., they ignore par(srt)) and they only choose
between srt=0 and srt=90.  This is actually documented behaviour (see
help(par)), but I doubt that is much help to you :)

The editor of a journal is demanding that the right axis labels face
inwards in the figures I recently submitted.  I am really at a loss
because these editors are inflexible with respect to their in-house
journal styles.

This is not pretty, but if I have understood correctly it should do what you
want ...

par(xpd=T)  #  so that text() will draw outside of the plotting region
plot(1:10)    # replace this with  your plotting commands
axis(4, labels=F)    # draw axis ticks but no labels
text(rep(11, 5), seq(2,10,2),  seq(2,10,2), srt=270)    # draw tick labels
by hand

... where I have used `rep(11, 5)` for the x-locations of the labels, you
will need to experiment to get the placing right.  You will also need to
replace the `seq(2,10,2)` bits with appropriate y-locations too.  The
problem with the x-locations is that this is trying to locate the text
within the plot margins by specifying x-locations in terms of the user
coordinate system.  As I said, it is not pretty :)

Paul