R help - Oct 2004 - common axis label in multiple plot area

Hello
A very short question: Using multiple plots with par(mfrow=c(3,3)), how 
can I get R to indicate one common y- and x-axis label? I tried to use 
text() in par, but this is then overwritten when I plot the graphs.
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Sebastian Leuzinger wrote:
> Hello
> A very short question: Using multiple plots with par(mfrow=c(3,3)), how 
> can I get R to indicate one common y- and x-axis label? I tried to use 
> text() in par, but this is then overwritten when I plot the graphs.
Use par(oma=...) to set the outer margins > 0 and use mtext(..., 
outer=TRUE) to write into the outer margins.

Uwe Ligges

Hi

you can use outer margins and mtext for common labeling of 
multiple figures

see ?par    "oma" and ?mtext

Cheers
Petr


On 20 Oct 2004 at 10:31, Sebastian Leuzinger wrote:
> Hello
> A very short question: Using multiple plots with par(mfrow=c(3,3)),
> how can I get R to indicate one common y- and x-axis label? I tried to
> use text() in par, but this is then overwritten when I plot the
> graphs. -- Sebastian Leuzinger Institute of Botany, University of
> Basel Sch??nbeinstr. 6 CH-4056 Basel Ph. 0041 (0) 61 267 3511 fax  0041
> (0) 61 2673504 email: Sebastian.Leuzinger at unibas.ch
> <mailto:Sebastian.Leuzinger at unibas.ch> web: 
> http://www.unibas.ch/botschoen/leuzinger/e.shtml
> <http://www.unibas.ch/botschoen/leuzinger/d.shtml>
> 
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