[R] line argument in mtext for axis ?

[Annette Heisswolf]

Hei,

As far as I understand your question, you might want to check the settings of par(mgp), which has three elements. According to ?par mgp sets 
  "The margin line (in mex units) for the axis title, axis labels and axis line. Note that mgp[1] affects title whereas mgp[2:3] affect 
axis. The default is c(3, 1, 0)." According to ?axis the value of par("mgp")[2] is used to place the tick labels. Thus, changing the default 
to the value of your choice might do what you want.

Hope that helps,
Annette

Daren Tan schrieb:
> Previously, I wasn't aware that axis() supports "las" arguments, and
> as a result, I used axis() for the ticks and mtext() to rotate the
> labels perpendicular to the axis. Now, I hope to cleanup my codes by
> combining the axis() and mtext() codes into a single axis(), the only
> issue is that much of my mtext() codes set the "line" argument to some
> values. The "line" argument in axis() doesn't work the same way
> according to the help page, is there an equivalent argument in axis()
> that functions identically to the "line" argument in mtext() ?
> 
> 
> 2009/4/6 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>>
>> Daren Tan wrote:
>>> Is there a similar argument for axis that controls the position of
>>> labels via line argument in mtext ?
>> At least in my version of the help page of mtext() everything about that is
>> described. What is your problem with ?mtext and the "line" argument?
>>
>> Uwe Ligges

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