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Adrian
Adrian

Reputation: 9813

R: how to move axes labels closer to the plot

I would like to move the axes labels closer to my plot. How can I do that? 

set.seed(3)
plot(rnorm(10), xlab = "Age", ylab = "Weight", cex.lab = 1.5)

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 14541

Answers (2)

Adam C
Adam C

Reputation: 334

I think the command you're looking for is:

par(mgp=c(2,1,0))

Then create your plot: 

plot(rnorm(10), xlab = "Age", ylab = "Weight", cex.lab = 1.5)

Once you're done you can reset it to the default: 

par(mgp=c(3,1,0))

Upvotes: 7

Daniel Anderson
Daniel Anderson

Reputation: 2424

Using title() and specifying line should work for you. You may also want to consider changing the margins via par(oma = c()) or par(mar = c()) (the sequence of numbers goes: bottom, left, top, right).

set.seed(3)
plot(rnorm(10), xlab = "Age", ylab = "", cex.lab = 1.5)
title(ylab = "Weight", line = 2, cex.lab = 1.5)

Hope it helps

Upvotes: 3

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