R help - Mar 2010 - plots: gap between x- and y-axis

Hi,


I was wondering why the gap between the x- and the y-axis gets bigger with a
wider plot window.

see this example;

quartz("1",10,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)

quartz("2",30,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)

quartz("3",80,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)


Each time the distance between the y-axis to the x-axis gets larger.
This looks pretty strange in a big plot.





I think on windows machines you have to use X11 instead of quartz;

X11("1",10,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)

X11("2",30,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)

X11("3",80,3)
par(bty="n")
plot(1:9, xaxt="n")
axis(1, 1:9)