Adjust plot title (main) position

Question

I have been unable to find a way to adjust the (vertical) distance between plot and main title in R using par. In this example:

plot(1, 1, main = \"Title\")
         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

par(adj = 0)
plot(1, 1, main = "Title")

or equivalent:

plot(1, 1, main = "Title", adj = 0)

adj = 0 produces left-justified text, 0.5 (the default) centered text and 1 right-justified text. Any value in [0, 1] is allowed.

However, the issue is that this will also change the position of the label of the x-axis and y-axis.