This is a great post, very true, not enough of R’s graphics are well displayed online to really see how to achieve what the often ambiguous ‘help’ information suggests.
http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Graphics/Basics/mar-oma/index.htm
I particularly find “mtext(“lol”, outer=T)” to be particularly useful (requires “oma=c(2,2,2,2)” or similar).
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ This site is somewhat of the way there, but I’ve found seeing the actual code to be rather clumsy.
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