Dear R Users,

I am trying to plot a barchart with a line graph superimposed (using 
par(new=TRUE)). There are 12 bars and 12 corresponding points for the line 
graph. This is fine, except that I'm encountering two problems:

1) The position of the points (of the line graph) are not centred on the middle 
(horizontally) of each corresponding bar. In fact, whilst the first point is 
located on the left-most side of the first bar, subsequent points drift further 
towards the right of the bars, until the final point is at the right-most 
position on the final bar. I have used names.arg=substr(month.abb, 1, 1) to 
represent the first letter of each month for the barplot and xaxt="n" for the 
overplotting line graph. Is there a way of properly aligning the x-axis values 
so that the points are centred horizontally on the bars?


2) Similarly, for both plots, I have set ylim=c(10000, 85000) so that both 
y-axes are in proportion with one another. However, when I allow both graphs to 
plot their y-axis values, it becomes apparent that there is a slight offset 
again in where the axis labels are positioned. For example, 80000 is positioned 
notably higher up the y-axis for the barchart than for the line graph. (N.B. I 
have used xpd=FALSE for the barchart to prevent bars falling outside of the 
plot area). How do I ensure that the y-axis labels are correctly aligned so 
that they are common to both graphs?

Many thanks for your help,

Steve

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