[R] lattice custom axis function -- right side margins

P Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Fri Mar 4 02:01:58 CET 2011


Timothy W. Hilton wrote:
> To clarify the trouble I'm having with ylab.right, I am not getting an
> error message; the right-side label just does not appear on the plot.

Maybe this is mac-specific. On Windows, the label shows up
just fine. You might be able to make it appear by adjusting
the 'vjust' argument to ylab.right:

print(my_plot(example_data,
   ylab.right = list(expression(e==mc^2), vjust = -2)),
   position = c(0,0,.95,1))

Try playing with 'vjust'.

Peter Ehlers

> 
> -Tim
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Timothy W. Hilton <hilton at meteo.psu.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Many thanks, Richard -- the position argument does exactly what I
>>> needed.  I'm not having any luck with the ylab.right argument.  My R and
>>> lattice are up to date (below); is there something else I should check?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
>>> Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] lattice_0.19-17
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] grid_2.12.2  tools_2.12.2
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 2011, 03 at 01:05:49PM -0500, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>>>> print(my_plot(example_data, ylab.right=expression(e==mc^2)),
>>>> position=c(0,0,.95,1))
>>>>
>>>> You will need a recent R version for the ylab.right argument.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Timothy W. Hilton <hilton at meteo.psu.edu
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear R help list,
>>>>>
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