[R] labels on secondary y axis

[Patrick Connolly]

On Thu, 26-Aug-2004 at 01:34AM +0100, Louize Hill wrote:

|> Hi,
|> I have plotted a graph and used a secondary axis as follows:
|> 
|> plot (d$Year, d$HrFishing, type='l', col='1', xlab='Year', ylab='Effort
|> (hours/fishing)')
|> par(new=TRUE)
|> plot (d$Year, d$Landings, type='l', col='3', xlab='', ylab='')
|> axis(4)
|> 
|> However, if I put a label in the 2nd ylab='' it is placed over the 1st ylab,
|> on the left hand side.
|> Clearly label in the axis command is not what I want as that erases my tick
|> marks, and ylab generates errors here!
|> Please can someone give me a pointer on what I should be using.

mtext is your friend.



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