Hi there, I am having difficulties with what seems like a very simple thing. My objective is to plot a distribution map for a species. I have produced a plot with spplot which uses a raster, a few shapefiles and xy points which are the species coordinates. It all works fine until I want to add coordinates for this map. I need to have the ticks and labels for those coordinates *inside* the plotting area, not outside (outside, it works fine). Apparently, using the code below (negatice 'tck'), the ticks are printed inside the plotting area, but under the raster, which is not of much use to me. My questions are: (1) how can I have the ticks and labels appearing on top of the raster? (2) what are the functions to have the labels also moved on the inside of the plotting area, sitting nicely close to the ticks? x.labels<-c("10?","15?","20?","25?","30","35?","40?") y.labels<-c("55?","50?","45?","40?","35?","30?","25?","20?") spplot ( raster.map, scales=list(tck=c(-0.3,0), draw=T, x=list(at=x.UTM, labels=x.labels), y=list(at=y.UTM, labels=y.labels)), #works fine with tck=c(0.3,0), but not with a negative value sp.layout=list(EEZ,coastline,sp)) #add shapefiles and the distribution points for the selected species Any help would be greatly appreciated! -Vincent -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Axis-annotation-using-lattice-spplot-tp4643810.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.