Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of labels via line argument in mtext ?
line argument in mtext for axis ?
5 messages · Daren Tan, Uwe Ligges, Annette Heisswolf
Daren Tan wrote:
Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of labels via line argument in mtext ?
At least in my version of the help page of mtext() everything about that is described. What is your problem with ?mtext and the "line" argument? Uwe Ligges
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Previously, I wasn't aware that axis() supports "las" arguments, and as a result, I used axis() for the ticks and mtext() to rotate the labels perpendicular to the axis. Now, I hope to cleanup my codes by combining the axis() and mtext() codes into a single axis(), the only issue is that much of my mtext() codes set the "line" argument to some values. The "line" argument in axis() doesn't work the same way according to the help page, is there an equivalent argument in axis() that functions identically to the "line" argument in mtext() ? 2009/4/6 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
Daren Tan wrote:
Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of labels via line argument in mtext ?
At least in my version of the help page of mtext() everything about that is described. What is your problem with ?mtext and the "line" argument? Uwe Ligges
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Hei,
As far as I understand your question, you might want to check the settings of par(mgp), which has three elements. According to ?par mgp sets
"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)." According to ?axis the value of par("mgp")[2] is used to place the tick labels. Thus, changing the default
to the value of your choice might do what you want.
Hope that helps,
Annette
Daren Tan schrieb:
Previously, I wasn't aware that axis() supports "las" arguments, and as a result, I used axis() for the ticks and mtext() to rotate the labels perpendicular to the axis. Now, I hope to cleanup my codes by combining the axis() and mtext() codes into a single axis(), the only issue is that much of my mtext() codes set the "line" argument to some values. The "line" argument in axis() doesn't work the same way according to the help page, is there an equivalent argument in axis() that functions identically to the "line" argument in mtext() ? 2009/4/6 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
Daren Tan wrote:
Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of labels via line argument in mtext ?
At least in my version of the help page of mtext() everything about that is described. What is your problem with ?mtext and the "line" argument? Uwe Ligges
Annette Heisswolf Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku 20014 Turku, Finland phone + 358 2 333 6006 fax + 358 2 333 6550 mail annette.heisswolf at utu.fi
Thanks, I should learn to read deeper into the help page next time. :) On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Annette Heisswolf
<annette.heisswolf at utu.fi> wrote:
Hei,
As far as I understand your question, you might want to check the settings
of par(mgp), which has three elements. According to ?par mgp sets ?"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)." According to ?axis the value of par("mgp")[2] is used to place
the tick labels. Thus, changing the default to the value of your choice
might do what you want.
Hope that helps,
Annette
Daren Tan schrieb:
Previously, I wasn't aware that axis() supports "las" arguments, and as a result, I used axis() for the ticks and mtext() to rotate the labels perpendicular to the axis. Now, I hope to cleanup my codes by combining the axis() and mtext() codes into a single axis(), the only issue is that much of my mtext() codes set the "line" argument to some values. The "line" argument in axis() doesn't work the same way according to the help page, is there an equivalent argument in axis() that functions identically to the "line" argument in mtext() ? 2009/4/6 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
Daren Tan wrote:
Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of labels via line argument in mtext ?
At least in my version of the help page of mtext() everything about that is described. What is your problem with ?mtext and the "line" argument? Uwe Ligges
-- Annette Heisswolf Section of Ecology Department of Biology University of Turku 20014 Turku, Finland phone ? + 358 2 333 6006 fax ? ? + 358 2 333 6550 mail ? ?annette.heisswolf at utu.fi