Try this. The par("cxy") gets a vector of character width and height in user coordinates.
points(0.25, par("usr")[3]-par("cxy")[2]/2, pch = 17, col = "red", cex = 2, xpd = TRUE) ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni Petris Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2016 10:01 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Giovanni Petris Subject: [R] Ajdustment of data symbols Hello, Is there a way to specify a non-default adjustment for data symbols, similar to what "adj" does for text? For example, the following lines of code produce a red triangle on the bottom border of the plot: plot(0, 0, type = 'n', xlab = "", ylab = "") points(0.25, par("usr")[3], pch = 17, col = "red", cex = 2, xpd = TRUE) I would like to draw the triangle completely outside the plotting area, with the upper vertex touching the x-axis... Thank you in advance! Best, Giovanni -- Giovanni Petris, PhD Professor Director of Statistics Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 Ph: (479) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax) http://definetti.uark.edu/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.