To add on Mark's comments, another neat option to intreractivelly place the
label in the desired location is to use locator(), i.e:
text( locator(1),"This is Y Axis 2", srt = 270, xpd = TRUE)
Once you execute this command, left click on the desired position for the
label in the plot and enjoy the results!
Cheers
Francisco
From: Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: R-Help <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [R] ylab on secondary y axis
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:48:44 -0500
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:26 -0700, Hai Lin wrote:
> Dear R users:
>
> I am trying to add a label on axis(4) but I don't find
> any reference in R archives. Could you please help me
> out?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> The followings are the data set and what I have done:
>
> Sample data:
>
> time y1 y2
> 2 9 24.396
> 4 7.667 19.082
> 10 4.667 73.984
>
> Commands:
> plot(time,y1,type='l',col='red',ylab="Relative
> levels", xlab="Age of Mice",ylim=c(0,20))
> points(time,y1 col="red", pch=19)
>
> op <-par(new=T)
> plot(time,y2,type='l',
> col='green',axes=F,xlab="",ylab="", ylim=c(0,80))
> points(time,y2,col='green',pch=24)
> axis(4)
There are two options:
First, use:
par(mar = c(5, 4, 4, 5))
before your first plot to increase the margin on the right hand side for
the second Y axis label. You can further adjust these as you may
require. See ?par for more information.
Then, after the second plot:
1. Use mtext() as follows:
mtext(4, text = "This is Y Axis 2", line = 3)
Note however that the text is facing outward. Adjust the 'line' argument
to move the text in or out as you need.
2. Use text() as follows:
text(11.5, 40, "This is Y Axis 2", srt = 270, xpd = TRUE)
This enables you to place the text outside the plot region (xpd = TRUE)
and rotate it so that it is facing inward. Adjust the x and y positions
as you need.
See ?mtext and ?text for more information.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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