Dear Frank, you can use grconvertY and grconvertX to convert from user coordinates to inches etc and vice versa. E.g.
lines(rep(.25*1500,2),grconvertY(grconvertY(par("usr")[3],"user","inches")+c(0,.1),from="inches",to="user")) should produce a tick of 0.1 inches height, regardless of the actual plot height. Hope this helps. Am 26.07.2013 13:57, schrieb Frank Harrell: > Thanks Rich and Jim and apologies for omitting the line > > x <- c(285, 43.75, 94, 150, 214, 375, 270, 350, 41.5, 210, 30, 37.6, > 281, 101, 210) > > But the fundamental problem remains that vertical spacing is not correct > unless I waste a lot of image space at the top. > > Frank > > -- Eik Vettorazzi Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 20246 Hamburg T ++49/40/7410-58243 F ++49/40/7410-57790 ______________________________________________ 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.