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...positioning of the x vs. y axis labels and xlab / ylab -- the x-axis labels are pushed into the tic-marks, while the y-axis labels look fine. A more extreme example: dev.new() par(mex=.1, mar=c(10,10,10,10)) plot(1:10) Tracking this down in the code, this effect appears to be arising from: 1) GMtext in graphics.c adjusts the margin line coordinate using dev->yLineBias. After commenting out these adjustments, the x-axis text is clearly shifted up (i.e. the bottom of the text is aligned at the specified margin line) while the y-axis text is shifted left (i.e. the bottom of the text is st...