Also look at the mgp option under ?par. This allows one to set the margin line for axis title, axis labels and axis line...
Regards, Mark Difford. Marc Schwartz wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:39 +0200, Christian Schäfer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my x-axis contains labels that consist of two lines (the actual label >> and below information about groupsize). Unfortunately, there is too >> little spacing between labels and tickmarks in this situation. Is there >> a parameter to tune spacing between axis and labels? >> >> Thanks, >> Chris > > See ?mtext and take note of the 'line' argument, which allows you to > specify the margin line upon which to place text labels. The 'at' > argument is used to define where on the axis the labels should be > places. > > If you are not already, you will want to use either 'axes = FALSE' or > 'xaxt = "n"' in your plot call, so that the default axis labels are not > drawn. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Spacing-between-x-axis-and-labels-tf4516362.html#a12883395 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
