[R] different coloured axis title labels for different axes

[William Dunlap]

The following shows how to get different colors for most features of a
scatterplot:

plot(1:11,log(1:11),ann=FALSE,axes=FALSE,col="pink",pch=16)
box(col="gray")
title(xlab="X Axis Label", col.lab="light blue")
title(ylab="Y Axis Label", col.lab="light green")
axis(side=1, at=c(2,3,5,7,11), lab=as.expression(lapply(1:5,
function(i)bquote(pi[.(i)]))), col.axis="red", col="orange")
axis(side=2, at=log(c(2,3,5,7,11)), lab=as.expression(lapply(1:5,
function(i)bquote(lambda[.(i)]))), col.axis="blue", col="green")
title(main="Main Title", col.main="magenta", sub="(subtitle)",
col.sub="yellow")

See help(par) for details.  The 'cex' and 'font' parameters have same
subtypes as 'col'.




Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Evan Cooch <evan.cooch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Consider a simple plot of X vs Y.  There are elements on the plot that
> represent X, or Y, that are presented in different colours (say, blue
> for X,   red for Y). Rather than use a legend, I would like to have the
> title label for the X-axis be in blue, and the title label for the
> Y-axis be in red.
>
> While it is trivial to change the color of the axis title labels for
> *both* axes at the same time, I haven't figured out how to trick thing
> into generating a blue title label for the X-axis, and a red title label
> for the Y- axis (i.e., different colours on different axes).
>
> I'm sure this is out there on searchable pages, but, I haven't managed
> to stumble across the appropriate search phrase(s).
>
> Pointers to the obvious solution welcomed in advance.
>
>
> Cheers....
>
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