On 2014/9/2 11:50, David L Carlson wrote:
The bottom of the expression is set by the lowest character (which can even 
change for subscripted letters with descenders. The solution is to get axis() 
to align the tops of the axis labels and move the line up to reduce the space, 
e.g.

plot(1:5, xaxt = "n")
axis(1, at = 1:5, labels = c(expression(E[g]), "E", expression(E[j]),
"E", expression(E[t])), padj=1, mgp=c(3, .1, 0))
# Check alignment
abline(h=.7, xpd=TRUE, lty=3)

yes. In this situation, padj = 1 is the fast solution. However, If there are also superscript, then it's hard to alignment all the labels.

If R provide a mechanism that aligns the label in axis() or text() with the baseline of the character without the super- and/or sub-script, that will be terrific.

Regards,
Jinsong


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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352


-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On 
Behalf Of Jinsong Zhao
Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 6:41 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] depth of labels of axis

Hi there,

With the following code,

plot(1:5, xaxt = "n")
axis(1, at = 1:5, labels = c(expression(E[g]), "E", expression(E[j]),
"E", expression(E[t])))

you may notice that the "E" within labels of axis(1) are not at the same
depth. So the vision of axis(1) labels is something like wave.

Is there a possible way to typeset the labels so that they are have the
same depth?

Any suggestions will be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Jinsong


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