Excellent. Thank you both for the help. Just what I was looking for.
On 21-Oct-07, at 12:18 AM, Dave Hewitt wrote: > The controls for the margin sizes, which set the amount of space > allocated for the labels, are the 'mai' numbers in the first 'par' > call. The fourth number changed to 0.9 or greater should give you > more room like you're looking for. > > You can use the alternative 'mtext' way of adding the label (it's > simpler), which I have used below to make the right label appear > the same distance from the axis as the left label (option "line = > 3"). I don't see how to adjust the reading direction of the label > to be top-to-bottom with 'mtext', so I guess you'll need the 'text' > way of doing it if you want that orientation (although I don't > understand the 'usr' positions that define the location). > > Gabor, do you know how to change the reading direction with > 'mtext'? I tried 'srt' and that did not work. > > > library(zoo) > > set.seed(1) > z <- zoo(cbind(A = cumsum(rnorm(100)), B = cumsum(rnorm(100, mean = > 0.2)))) > > par(mai = c(.8, .8, .2, .9)) # Or change '.9' to a larger number > for even more room (the units are inches) > > plot(z[,1], type = "l", xlab = "X axis label", ylab = colnames(z) > [1], lty = 1, lwd = 2) > > par(new = TRUE) > > plot(z[,2], type = "l", ann = FALSE, yaxt = "n", col = "blue", lty > = 2, lwd = 2) > > axis(4) > > legend(x = "topleft", bty = "n", lty = c(1,2), lwd = c(2,2), > col = c("black", "blue"), legend = paste(colnames(z), c > ("(left y-axis)", "(right y-axis)"))) > > mtext(colnames(z)[2], 4, line = 3, col = "blue") > > --Dave > > At 11:42 PM 10/20/2007 +0200, John Theal wrote: >> I still haven't resolved this problem. However, when I run the >> plot.zoo example the label appears, it also appears if I enter the >> commands manually. The problem that persists is that the label >> has to lie so close to the secondary y axis, that (in my case) it >> becomes almost indistinguishable from the axis scale labels. If >> the label is long, then it over-writes some of the scale >> labeling. I thought it might be do to the way the Quartz window >> manager handles the figure margins (under Mac OS X), but it looks >> as though maybe this is not the case. >> >> I'm running the same versions of R (2.6.0, unpatched) and zoo >> (1.4-0) as Gabor. I am using R under Mac OS X. >> Dave Hewitt wrote: >>> I was curious about the exact same question that John Theal posed >>> - how to get a second y-axis label for a plot of two data series >>> against a common x (in my case, time). >>> >>> I tried two different methods - one in lattice and one in plot. >>> Both times the y-axis on the right side appears but the label >>> does not. Similar to John's comment, it appears that there is not >>> enough room for the label. >>> >>> Gabor mentioned that the plot.zoo examples give a plot like this. >>> When I run that series of examples, #7 appears to be what Gabor >>> was referring to, but even there the label for the right-hand y- >>> axis is missing. >>> >>> Help? >>> >>> Dave Hewitt > > ______________________________________________ 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.