[R] using axis with newline characters

[Ott Toomet]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 May 2002 andreas.krause at pharma.novartis.com wrote:

  |Wondering if I missed anything or if that's a problem with R:
  |I want to have many x axis tickmarks and labels such that it makes sense to put them on multiple "lines".
  |The newline character seems to be ignored though for axis labels:
  |
  |plot(1:33, axes=F)
  |axis(1, 9, 9)
  |axis(1, 11, "\n11")
  |axis(1)

Use par(mgp).  Example:

> plot(1:33)
> par(mgp=c(3,2,0))
> axis(1,9,9)

Was it what you wanted?

Cheers,

Ott

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