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Full_Name: Cornell Gonschior Version: 2.10.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (212.201.28.40) Hi, in the introduction to R, you can find the following sentence in the par() chapter: "Use tck=0.01 and mgp=c(1,-1.5,0) for internal tick marks." I thought that's nice, because I wanted to have tick marks and tick labels inside and the axis title outside. But: > plot(z, las=1, tck=0.01, mgp=c(1,-1.5,0)) Warnmeldungen: 1: In plot.window(...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 2: In plot.x...

It seems that when an argument 'mgp' is supplied to axis(), the mgp[2] value (position of tick mark labels) is honoured but the mgp[3] value (position of axis line) is ignored. Example: plot(1:5, xaxt='n', ann=FALSE) par(mgp=c(0,2,1)) axis(1, at=2:4, mgp=c(0,-2,-3)) Axis line is plotted at margin line 1, tick m...

Full_Name: Nicholas Boers Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows XP Home Edition, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Submission from: (NULL) (24.68.84.10) mgp[2] specifies the axis labels' margin line relative to that of the axis line (mgp[3]). The `par' help does not document this behaviour. The following code demonstrates my observation: plot.new(); par(mgp = c(3, 2, 1)); box(); title(xlab = "x"); axis(1); Based on the R...

Hi, I'am trying to make a multiple bar plot over a map and I'm having difficulties with the distance between axes labels and the axis. Trying to control this with mgp does not help because it controls both axes simultaneously. For example, with default values (mgp = c(3, 1, 0)) y-axis labels are ok, but x-axis labels are not. Setting mgp = c(3, 0, 0) gives good x-axis labels but the y-axis labels are over the axis. Since I'm using subplot() from TechingDem...

Full_Name: Nicholas Boers Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows XP Home Edition, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Submission from: (NULL) (24.68.84.10) mgp[2] specifies the axis labels' margin line relative to that of the axis line (mgp[3]). The `par' help does not document this behaviour. The following code demonstrates my observation: plot.new(); par(mgp = c(3, 2, 1)); box(); title(xlab = "x"); axis(1); Based on the R...

...a utility for going from .Rd to nroff. I guess I could use .Rd -> html but the html would not fully meet all the needs for S-Plus 6 help files. Other approaches and ideas are most welcome. Frank Harrell P.S. I didn't get any reaction to my proposal to have x- and y-axis specific par('mgp') parameters when par(las=1). I hope that R-core will consider that. -- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat -.-.-...

I have long axis labels (8units) on the x axis and 2 unit number labels on the y axis. I need to move the x axis title without moving the y axis title. I have used mgp=c(title, label and line), but mgp moves both the x and y titles. The following puts the y axis title way way out to the left. Anyone know how to move just the x axis. X11() conif<-c("Control", "Switched Wires", "Salt", "Conductive Board", "Needle Siz...

I just installed 99.0a, and I can't set mar and mgp: > par(mar(2,2,.1,.1)) Error in par(mar(2, 2, .1, .1)) : couldn't find function "mar" I had the same happen with mgp. Are these bugs or a problem in my installation (everything else seems OK)? Is R core going to kill mar and mgp? If so, how should I fix the huge margins and huge...

Dear R-wizards! I want to move the axis label of the y-axis a little bit more apart from the border of the plot (otherwise, it would overlap with my horizontal numbering). 'par(mgp(3.5, 1, 0))' does it properly. Unfortunately, it also moves the x-axis label which does not look good. Is there a way to specify 'mgp' for each axis separately or is there another way to move just the y-axis label on its own? Thanks for looking into my problem. I hope there is a so...

Hello, I am trying to use mgp.axis labels to locate the x-xis at a different distance from the one specified for the y-axis. I know I could use other functions such as mtext or axis. But I am curious to know about how to use 'mgp'axis.labels' from the Hmisc package. I tried following the example in the documenta...

Hi, I have created a plot using filled.contour() and have the problem that one of the axis titles and an axis label are overlapping. I have tried changing par()$mgp (with, e.g. par(mgp=c(4,1,0)) ), but this just makes the title go off the screen. I can't work out how to make the plot take up less space in the window, so I can hopefully change mgp and sort the problem. Is changing mgp the only way to position axis titles/labels? Regards, Nicky Chorley

...I consider myself a somewhat experienced user of R, but have struggled with this for a while now. to the point where I just end up pulling the entire graph together in powerpoint and fixing it up from there. How does one adjust the horizontal/vertical positions of axis titles? I've tried using mgp in the par function, but that never produces anything satisfactory as x and y-axes are modified simultaneously. It would appear that you can specify mgp in the axis function, but that doesn't seem to work at all. It is particularly frustrating when you need to adjust axis title positions separa...

...ngth=100) y<-exp(-D_mean^2/5) pdf("my.pdf") plot(D_mean,y,type="l",yaxt="n",lty=2,lwd=2,col="black", ylab = list(expression(paste(dN/dlogD[agg]," ["*cm^-3*"]"))), xlab = expression(paste(D[agg]," [nm]")), cex.lab=1.2 ) axis(2, mgp=c(0, 0.2, -2)) dev.off() With mgp() I can tune the distance between the ticks and the tick labels, but how can I move the axis label? I would like to move the one along y to visualize correctly the exponent "3". Kind Regards Lorenzo On 08/08/07, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at...

Suppose I have the bottom axis of a plot that looks like: ----+----+----+----+----+----+---- | | | | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 Axis title 1. How do I reduce the gap between the ends of the ticks and the axis labels (numbers)? 2. How do I vary the gap between the bottom of the axis labels and the top of the axis title? I have looked in various places

Hello, I am trying to port one of my plotting S+ functions to R and I am having difficulties!!! I am including here only the troublesome code! I first produce a barplot, saving the positions of the bar's centers. par(mar = c(6.1, 5.1, 4.1, 4.1), mgp = c(3, 3.0, 0)) ticks.loc <- barplot(sum.of.weights, col = 5, xlab = "", ylab = "", axes = FALSE, axisnames = FALSE) pretty.bar <-pretty(c(0, sum.of.weights), 6) pretty.lab <- paste(pretty.bar, "%", sep = "") axis(sid...

...he color table to be exactly the same. The way I proceded is the following: for one plot and the color-table png(file = png.file, width = 650, height = 800, pointsize = 16) layout(matrix(c(1, 2), ncol = 2, nrow = 1, byrow = T), widths = c(6, 1), heights = 1) par(mar = c(0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2), mgp = c(2, 1, 0), las = 0) ... dev.off() for 4 plots and the color-table png(file = png.file, width = 650, height = 800, pointsize = 16) layout(matrix(c(1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 5), ncol = 3, nrow = 2, byrow = T), widths = c(3, 3, 1), heights = c(1, 1)) par(mar = c(0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2), mgp = c(2, 1, 0),...

I'd like to make a plot with the axes drawn at the values of xlim and ylim. The default plot draws the axes slightly outside these values. I have been experimenting with the par(mgp) setting, but specifying par(mgp=c(2,0,-1)) gives me "invalid value specified for graphics parameter "mgp".". A more complicated mathod that almost seems to work is doing the plot with "axes=F" and then adding the axes with "axis" statements: xlim <- c...

Hi, I'm building a graph (barplot) in which the X axis label disappears. I tried to use the option mgp of par() and I could not get the desired result. Note that want the axis labels horizontally. caes = c(37,20,19,16,75,103) names(caes) = c("Pinscher", "Pastor \n Alem?o", "Poodle", "Rottweiller", "SRD", "Outros") caess = sort(caes, dec...

I am trying to use wireframe at the moment and the axis labels are overlapping with the tick labels. It seems that gpar does not yet utilize the mgp argument. Is there anyway to manipulate the position of the axis labels? The best I can manage so far is to manipulate the cex so as to shrink everything down. thanks, Carlo Maley -- Dr. Carlo C. Maley Staff Scientist Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. C1-157 Seattl...

Hi, How can I make the distance between an axis-label and the axis bigger? I haven't found anything in par()...