Thank you Frede Aakmann Tøgersen, but your suggestion is too difficult for me to understand.
Two problems: 1)If I let the labels on the bottom horizontal scale be horizontal, then when I change the graph's size horizontally some labels disappear and reappear depending on the amount of stretch. Also labels take too much horizontal space. Also it doesn't print the same number of labels as shows on the screen as they disappear and reappear. 2)If I put the labels vertically on the horizontal scale, the 4-digit numbers take too much vertical space and I would like to put them to the left (i.e. above) the Unit. I could externally tell it where to put them, but the location should be relative to the label size, not only to the original scale of the horizontal axis. It seems to me that there might be a way in R to make this happen. Hurr -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Put-short-string-labels-vertically-near-tick-marks-on-bottom-axis-tp4690452p4690574.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.