Recently, I was trying to make an inward-facing label for a vertical axis on the right-hand side of a plot. The inward-facing label was required by a journal. I searched R-help, but the only solution I found was to use text, which requires fiddling with the x-coordinate for each plot. What would have been perfect is a way to rotate text in mtext. I had a similar problem trying to use mtext to put a vertical label on a vertical axis with horizontal tick labels. Jonathan Dushoff
mtext: rotating text
2 messages · Jonathan Dushoff, Uwe Ligges
Jonathan Dushoff wrote:
Recently, I was trying to make an inward-facing label for a vertical axis on the right-hand side of a plot. The inward-facing label was required by a journal. I searched R-help, but the only solution I found was to use text, which requires fiddling with the x-coordinate for each plot. What would have been perfect is a way to rotate text in mtext.
Indeed, so we can expect a contribution?
I had a similar problem trying to use mtext to put a vertical label on a vertical axis with horizontal tick labels.
plot(1:10, las=1)
mtext("Hello", 2)
or using par():
opar <- par(las=1)
plot(1:10)
par(opar)
mtext("Hello", 2)
Uwe Ligges
Jonathan Dushoff
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