R help - Jun 2002 - simple plot with magnified cex.axis & cex.label

Hello!

I've tried to make subj.

Here is code:

  x <- 1:5
  y <- 1:5

  par  ( cex.lab  = 3.6,
         cex.axis = 3.6 )

  plot ( x, y, ylab = "Any title" )


I've got ugly picture, where

  1) x-axis labels & x-axis itself overlapped,
  2) y-axis title does not not fit within bounding box.

The _same_ effect in "postscript" device.

Is this a bug?  Could I solve this problem any way _now_, if
I _have_ to plot graph with strongly magnified axis labels?


Thanks,

Timur.

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Timur Elzhov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've tried to make subj.
>
> Here is code:
>
>   x <- 1:5
>   y <- 1:5
>
>   par  ( cex.lab  = 3.6,
>          cex.axis = 3.6 )
>
>   plot ( x, y, ylab = "Any title" )
>
>
> I've got ugly picture, where
>
>   1) x-axis labels & x-axis itself overlapped,
>   2) y-axis title does not not fit within bounding box.
>
> The _same_ effect in "postscript" device.
>
> Is this a bug?  Could I solve this problem any way _now_, if
> I _have_ to plot graph with strongly magnified axis labels?
No, it's a mis-understanding.  Try setting par(mex): perhaps to less than
3.6.

BTW, this is essentially Exercise 3.2 in Venables & Ripley (1999) and that
has on-line answers which suggest a different way to do this and further
tweaks you might do.

For postscript, just set a small width & height and expand the figure
afterwards.

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