It seems that when an argument 'mgp' is supplied to axis(), the mgp[2] value (position of tick mark labels) is honoured but the mgp[3] value (position of axis line) is ignored. Example:
plot(1:5, xaxt='n', ann=FALSE) par(mgp=c(0,2,1)) axis(1, at=2:4, mgp=c(0,-2,-3)) Axis line is plotted at margin line 1, tick mark labels at line -3. Is this a bug? J. R. M. Hosking > R.version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 7.1 year 2008 month 06 day 23 svn rev 45970 language R version.string R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel