Either way, there is a par() parameter to control the axis and label title position. Look at the entry for 'mgp' in ?par
-Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 9/10/12 2:17 PM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > >On Sep 10, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Nicolai Schneider wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I´m really sorry to bother you with this problem but it took me a whole >>day searching for a solution. >> >> I want the y axis labels positioned closer to the y axis, by default >>they are partly outside the window. >> >> >> Example: >> >> x <- as.zoo(EuStockMarkets) >> >> par(las=1) >> >> plot.zoo(x, type="l", main="", xlab="", yaxt="n", xaxs="i") >> title(main="Title", xlab="index") >> >> par(las=0) > >I could be wrong, but I think you need to specify xaxt="n" to suppress >the standard axis and then use axis to supply your own choices. > >-- > >David Winsemius, MD >Alameda, CA, USA > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.