R help - Jul 2009 - Moving axis-labels

Hi,

This is hopefully quite a straightforward quandary. I have made a simple R 
plot but the values on my x-axis are sufficiently large enough that they 
interfere my x-axis label. How can I shunt the x-axis label further away 
from the x-axis?

Thanks

Jim

----------------------
JS Walker
jw2324 at bristol.ac.uk

You can use par(mgp=c(...)) to change where the axis labels are placed by
default, but this affects both the x and y axis.  Another alternative is to not
plot the x axis label (xlab=''), then use the title or mtext function
you can manually place the axis label where you want it.  Also look at the
'mar' section of the help on par for the way to increase the area in the
margin.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

> -----Original Message-----
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> project.org] On Behalf Of JS Walker
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> Subject: [R] Moving axis-labels
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is hopefully quite a straightforward quandary. I have made a
> simple R
> plot but the values on my x-axis are sufficiently large enough that
> they
> interfere my x-axis label. How can I shunt the x-axis label further
> away
> from the x-axis?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----------------------
> JS Walker
> jw2324 at bristol.ac.uk
> 
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