[R] Positioning of axis titles

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Nicky Chorley wrote:

> 2008/8/20 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>> Increase the margins as well, default is:
>>  par("mar"=c(5,4,4,1)+.1)
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>
> Thanks very much. One further question: is it possible to change the
> position of only one axis title (since using mgp changes both)?

As I said, use title() directly.  E.g.

par(mar=c(6,4,4,1)+.1)
plot(1:10, xlab="")
title(xlab="x lab title", line=4)

There's also a sneaky way in this case:

plot(1:10, xlab="", sub="x lab title")

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