Frank, this is it. It uses Peter's idea.
plot(1:10) axis(side=2, 1:10, las=1, line=-31.5, lwd=0) axis(side=4, 1:10, las=1, labels=FALSE) Rich On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harr...@vanderbilt.edu>wrote: > Rich's pointers deals with lattice/grid graphics. Does anyone have a > solution for base graphics? > Thanks > Frank > > Richard M. Heiberger wrote > > > > Frank, > > > > This can be done directly with a variant of the panel.axis function. > > See function panel.axis.right in the HH package. This was provided for > me > > by David Winsemius in response to my query on this list in October 2011 > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/292806.html > > > > The email thread also includes comments by Deepayan Sarkar and Paul > > Murrell. > > > > Rich > > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell@>wrote: > > > >> I want to right-justify a vector of numbers in the right margin of a > >> low-level plot. For this I need to compute the line parameter to give > to > >> mtext. Is this the correct scalable calculation? > >> > >> par(mar=c(4,3,1,5)); plot(1:20) > >> s <- 'abcde'; w=strwidth(s, units='inches')/par('cin')[1] > >> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=5, adj=1, line=w-.5, cex=1) > >> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=7, adj=1, line=2*(w-.5), cex=2) > >> > >> Thanks > >> Frank > >> > >> ----- > >> Frank Harrell > >> Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Computing-line-for-mtext-tp4431554p4431554.html > >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@ mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html><http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html>> > ; > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@ mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > ----- > Frank Harrell > Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Computing-line-for-mtext-tp4431554p4436923.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
