I suspect you may need to tweak your margins. See the "mar" argument to the "par" command for guidance.
Something like par(mar=c(5,4,4,4)) should probably get you started, though. On 9/3/06, Chris Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Having a bit of trouble with plotting two y variables on the same > graph. I cannot manage to get the secondary y axis label on to the right > of the axis - it gets plotted beyond the graphic window I assume?! The > way I constructed the graph is thus: > > plot(data[,3],data[,2],axes=F, type="b") ## plots my data from two > data colums without axes - fine > axis(1, at=data[,3]) ## adds my > primary axis - fine > mtext("Year", side=1, line=2) ## Adds the title > "Year" - fine > axis(2) > mtext("Index of population size", side=2, line=2) ## Puts the primary > y axis on and names it correctly > points(data[,3],data[,1],pch=16) ## puts my secondary y > points on - also fine > axis(4) > mtext("Number of sun hours in April", side=4, line=2) ## if I enter > "line=1" it writes over my inex numbers but if I put > > "line=2" it disappears. > > I assume that perhaps the graph automatically fills the space and does > not leave any for 'odd' axes. My questions therefore are: how can I get > the legend on that axis, how do I remove ylab and xlab to free the space > that they take (as they spaced by default at "line=3" and thus waste > space - I would like to set them to "line=2") and perhaps how do I > scrunch up the x-axis so that it leaves more space at either side? > > Sorry for the ignorance! > > Chris > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.