[R] Spacing between x axis and labels

[Marc Schwartz]

Just be aware the there is no differentiation between the x and y axes
when using that approach, which is why I did not mention it.

Changing the default parms for the y axis may not be desirable here.

Marc

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:25 -0700, Mark Difford wrote:
> Also look at the mgp option under ?par.
> 
> This allows one to set the margin line for axis title, axis labels and axis
> line...
> 
> Regards,
> Mark Difford.
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Schwartz wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 15:39 +0200, Christian Schäfer wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> my x-axis contains labels that consist of two lines (the actual label 
> >> and below information about groupsize). Unfortunately, there is too 
> >> little spacing between labels and tickmarks in this situation. Is there 
> >> a parameter to tune spacing between axis and labels?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Chris
> > 
> > See ?mtext and take note of the 'line' argument, which allows you to
> > specify the margin line upon which to place text labels. The 'at'
> > argument is used to define where on the axis the labels should be
> > places.
> > 
> > If you are not already, you will want to use either 'axes = FALSE' or
> > 'xaxt = "n"' in your plot call, so that the default axis labels are not
> > drawn.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz
> >