[R] Axis label spanning multiple plots

[baptiste auguie]

you can use title() with the sub argument,

title(sub="x label", outer=T) # you might want to play around with  
line argument

baptiste


On 1 Jun 2009, at 22:03, Andre Nathan wrote:

> Hello
>
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:38 -0600, Greg Snow wrote:
>> Create an outer margin (see ?par), then use mtext to put the title  
>> in the outer margin.
>
> Sorry for taking that long to reply...
>
> I created an outer margin with
>
>  par(oma = c (0, 2, 0, 0))
>
> and then did
>
>  par(mfrow = c(2, 1))
>  plot(...)
>  plot(...)
>  mtext("title 1", side = 2, outer = T)
>
> With that, the text "title 1" appears to the left of the second plot,
> and not to the left of both plots, centered between them, which is  
> what
> I was trying to do. Is there a way to accomplish that (without manual
> text positioning, that is)?
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>
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