On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote: > People, > > I am using the "las=2" parameter to rotate the labels for the X axis ticks > but it means that they are almost touching the "xlab" string. I have been > messing around with the "mai" paremeter but that doesn't help - is there > some way of increasing the space between xlab and the X axis tick labels? >
Try adjusting mar and mgp: opar <- par(mar = c(5, 6, 4, 2) + 0.1, no.readonly = TRUE) plot(0, las = 2, mgp = c(4, 1, 0), ylab = "Y") par(opar) -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.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.