[R] y-label on right hand side of plot

[Carlos Ortega]

Hello,

Please check if this is acceptable for you..

par(mar=c(6,6,6,6))
plot(1:10,yaxt="n",ylab="")
axis(4)
mtext('y-label',4,line=2)

Regards,
Carlos.

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:31:49 +0200, joerg van den hoff
<j.van_den_hoff at fz-rossendorf.de> wrote:
> Is there a better way than:
> 
> par(mar=c(6,6,6,6))
> plot(1:10,yaxt="n",ylab="")
> axis(4)
> text(12,5.5,'y-label',xpd=T,srt=90)
> 
> to get the y-ticks _and_ the y-label to the rhs of the plot? I did not
> find anything in the  'par', 'plot', 'axis' and 'title' manpages to
> solve the problem. (the above is ugly, because one needs to hardcode the
>    text position or needs to calculate it 'manually' from par('usr'). it
> would be much nicer, if there were a flag to 'title' controlling were
> the labels occur).
> 
> thanks
> joerg
> 
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