The bottom of the expression is set by the lowest character (which can even change for subscripted letters with descenders. The solution is to get axis() to align the tops of the axis labels and move the line up to reduce the space, e.g.
plot(1:5, xaxt = "n") axis(1, at = 1:5, labels = c(expression(E[g]), "E", expression(E[j]), "E", expression(E[t])), padj=1, mgp=c(3, .1, 0)) # Check alignment abline(h=.7, xpd=TRUE, lty=3) ------------------------------------- David L Carlson Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77840-4352 -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jinsong Zhao Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 6:41 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] depth of labels of axis Hi there, With the following code, plot(1:5, xaxt = "n") axis(1, at = 1:5, labels = c(expression(E[g]), "E", expression(E[j]), "E", expression(E[t]))) you may notice that the "E" within labels of axis(1) are not at the same depth. So the vision of axis(1) labels is something like wave. Is there a possible way to typeset the labels so that they are have the same depth? Any suggestions will be really appreciated. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Jinsong ______________________________________________ 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.
