[R] mtext: rotating text

[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


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