Change Space Between Axis Label & Plot in Base R (Example Code)

data(iris)                           # Loading iris data set
head(iris)
#   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

data(iris) # Loading iris data set head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa

plot(iris$Sepal.Length,              # Draw default Base R plot
     iris$Sepal.Width, 
     xaxt = "n",
     yaxt = "n")

plot(iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw default Base R plot iris$Sepal.Width, xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n")

plot(iris$Sepal.Length,              # Draw Base R plot without axis labels
     iris$Sepal.Width, 
     xaxt = "n",
     yaxt = "n",
     xlab = "",
     ylab = "")
title(xlab = "iris$Sepal.Length",    # Add x-axis text
      line = 0)
title(ylab = "iris$Sepal.Width",     # Add y-axis text
      line = 0)

plot(iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw Base R plot without axis labels iris$Sepal.Width, xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n", xlab = "", ylab = "") title(xlab = "iris$Sepal.Length", # Add x-axis text line = 0) title(ylab = "iris$Sepal.Width", # Add y-axis text line = 0)