Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> There's no real difficulty there: axis takes an mgp arg as well.
Thanks for that. A good bit of practical advice, which I hadn't yet clicked on. I won't comment on the thinking thing;) Regards, Mark. Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: > > On 18/02/2009 7:50 AM, Mark Difford wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>>> I don't think you can do this directly, but you can do it using mtext. >> >> This is not correct. > > It was correct at the time I wrote it. Of course things have changed > now that you and Dimitris have been so helpful: now I *do* think you > can do it directly. > > > You can, as Dimitris has already shown. See ?par (sub >> mgp). The difficulty arises if you want only one set of axes changed, >> which >> is not what was requested. > > There's no real difficulty there: axis takes an mgp arg as well. So you > can plot without axes, then add one axis with one mgp value, and the > other axis with a different one. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> ## Example using your "example" >> par(mfrow = c(1, 2)) >> x <- 1:10 >> y <- rnorm(10) >> >> plot(x,y, axes=F) >> box() >> at <- pretty(x) >> min <- par("usr")[1] >> max <- par("usr")[2] >> at <- at[ at >= min & at <= max] # pretty extends the range >> axis(1, at=at, labels=FALSE) >> mtext(at, side=1, at=at, line=3) >> >> plot(x, y, mgp = c(3, 3, 0)) >> >> Regards, Mark. >> >> >> Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: >>> Luis Ridao Cruz wrote: >>>> R-help, >>>> >>>> How can I specify the distance between the axis and axis annotation? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I don't think you can do this directly, but you can do it using mtext. >>> For example: >>> >>> x <- 1:10 >>> y <- rnorm(10) >>> >>> plot(x,y, axes=F) >>> box() >>> at <- pretty(x) >>> min <- par("usr")[1] >>> max <- par("usr")[2] >>> at <- at[ at >= min & at <= max] # pretty extends the range >>> axis(1, at=at, labels=FALSE) >>> mtext(at, side=1, at=at, line=3) >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >>> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/distance-betwenn-axis-and-axis-annotation-tp22076797p22079896.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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.