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How to control spaces between axis, tick and label in xyplot or xYplot?

4 messages · David Winsemius, Peter Ehlers, willow1980

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willow1980
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Dear R users,
I encounter a problem regarding space control in xyplot. Basically, I want
to control spaces between label, tick and axis. I remember there is a
function called mgp in general plot. Is there a similar function for xyplot
or xYplot?
Below is my basic code:
myplotkid<-xyplot(expected_offspringnumber~afr|decade,groups=SES,data1,
auto.key=list(space="right"),layout=c(9,1),xlab="",ylab="Offspring number",
aspect="fill",scales=list(x=list(draw=F)),strip=T)
By the way, since there is no x-axis, I just want to control space
parameters in y-axis. Does someone have any idea to fulfil this aim?
Thank you very much for kind help!
Best regards,
Jianghua
David Winsemius
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On Jan 10, 2010, at 9:45 AM, willow1980 wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Had you included a dataset that was executable, this might have been  
tested, but as it is I will only offer a hack that I have used in the  
past with y-labels in xYplot. My memory is that there are about 3 line- 
widths of space and that the y-labels are at the leftmost position by  
default. I have in the past moved the labels to the right with  
leading"\n"'s.

The help page for xyplot indicates that finer control of xlab and ylab  
can be accomplished via methods described in the section regarding   
main,  and there we find these ideas:

"Further named arguments are passed on to textGrob; this can include  
arguments controlling positioning like just and rot as well as  
graphical parameters such as col and font (see gpar for a full list)."

            

      
      
      
    

        
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Peter Ehlers
    

    

      
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You don't provide reproducible code and your space bar seems to
be broken (or perhaps, you're trying to save bandwidth by
minimizing the number of characters sent), but this may be
what you're after:

myspacing <- 0.5
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Petal.Length | Species, data = iris,
        layout = c(3,1),
        par.settings = list(layout.widths = list(ylab.axis.padding = 
myspacing)))

Fiddle with myspacing until you're satisfied.

BTW, you probably don't need 'aspect = "fill"' since that's
the default (unless you've reset that in global lattice options).

  -Peter Ehlers

        
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      willow1980
    

    

      
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Thanks a lot for your help! I have tried Peter's code: it works perfectly.
Hopefully, this method will also be helpful to others with similar problems.
Best regards,
Jianghua