Rich's pointers deals with lattice/grid graphics. Does anyone have a solution for base graphics? Thanks Frank
Richard M. Heiberger wrote > > Frank, > > This can be done directly with a variant of the panel.axis function. > See function panel.axis.right in the HH package. This was provided for me > by David Winsemius in response to my query on this list in October 2011 > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2011-October/292806.html > > The email thread also includes comments by Deepayan Sarkar and Paul > Murrell. > > Rich > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell@>wrote: > >> I want to right-justify a vector of numbers in the right margin of a >> low-level plot. For this I need to compute the line parameter to give to >> mtext. Is this the correct scalable calculation? >> >> par(mar=c(4,3,1,5)); plot(1:20) >> s <- 'abcde'; w=strwidth(s, units='inches')/par('cin')[1] >> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=5, adj=1, line=w-.5, cex=1) >> mtext(s, side=4, las=1, at=7, adj=1, line=2*(w-.5), cex=2) >> >> Thanks >> Frank >> >> ----- >> Frank Harrell >> Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Computing-line-for-mtext-tp4431554p4431554.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@ mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Computing-line-for-mtext-tp4431554p4436923.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
