Hi Andrew, Perhaps this example would help. You can add in spaces to the mtext text to move the text sideways.
par(mai=c(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5),oma=c(2,2,2,2)) #mai units are INCHES, oma units are LINES plot(runif(50),xlab="xlab",ylab="ylab",bty="l") #n.b. these labels don't appear mtext("First inner x axis label",side=1) mtext("First inner y axis label",side=2) mtext("Second inner x axis label",side=3) mtext("Second inner y axis label",side=4) mtext("First outer x axis label",side=1,outer=TRUE) mtext("First outer y axis label",side=2,outer=TRUE) mtext("Second outer x axis label",side=3,outer=TRUE) mtext("Second outer y axis label",side=4,outer=TRUE) Cheers, Toby Marthews Le Jeu 12 juin 2008 15:32, Andrew Yee a écrit : > Here's a naive question about axis() > > How do you control the location of the labels with the axis() command? > > In the following example: > > foo <- data.frame(plot.x=seq(1:3), plot.y=seq(4:6)) > plot(foo$plot.x, foo$plot.y, type='n', axes=FALSE) > points(foo$plot.x, foo$plot.y) > axis(1, at=foo$plot.x, labels=foo$plot.x) > > I'd like to be able the control the y location of the labels (i.e. move up > or down in the graph). > > Thanks, > Andrew ______________________________________________ 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.