Y-Axis Label Overwritten By TickMark Values

On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 06:07 -0500, Paul Roebuck wrote:

Can someone tell me how to fix the left margin of plot region
such that the tick values don't overwrite the x-axis label?
I haven't been able to set the correct par option to fix this...

This is the Y axis label, not the X axis.

Oops. I'd been up all night...

Set par("mar") prior to creating the plot to increase the left
hand margin space and then use mtext() rather than title() to
move the Y axis label further left by using the 'line' argument.

[SNIP code]

See ?par and ?mtext for more information.

What a black art. Pray tell where you learned this that I
may study there as well. In at least one of my prior attempts,
I had used par("mar") but hadn't realized that title(ylab)
would have to be changed; it just didn't seem (to me anyway)
like wanting to display slightly larger numbers as tickmark
values would have required using other low-level plot commands.

After about a hour of trying different options, I found myself
really wanting to use the "R Plot Wizard(TM)" that lets you
interactively set the LAF of the plot, then generates the
appropriate R code to make it so.

BTW, I would not use 'tcl = 0.3' which, as a positive value,
places the tick marks themselves within the plot region.
That's contrary to typical guidance, since the tick marks
get lost in this plot and more importantly, can overwrite
data points in certain plot types.

Was emulating Matlab's plot output and that's how it places
tickmarks (for better or worse). I actually needed to place
tickmarks on all sides but hadn't found that option yet.

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