Dear list I am experiencing a very annoying problem with mtext, although I have been using this command for many years. The following code prints "test" twice in the outer margin, once at .7 where it should be, and once at the bottom somewhere. I also notice that the command takes longer than normal to execute, and it seems to overprint many times. Can anyone reproduce this? Is it a bug? I am on OSX 10.5.8 using R version 2.10.1 Thanks for advice. Sebastian layout(matrix(c(1:6),ncol=1)) par(oma=c(3,3,.5,5)) plot(c(1:10)) plot(c(1:10)) plot(c(1:10)) plot(c(1:10)) plot(c(1:10)) plot(c(1:10)) mtext(side=2,at=.7,"test",outer=T,las=0,line=1.7) [[alternative HTML version deleted]]