RotateLabel is not working in Plot

Question

I want to generate a plot with the label of the vertical axis rotated by 90 degree in order to save space. I cannot make that work with the option RotateLabel. Here is a MWE:

Graphics[Plot[x, {x, 0, 2}, AxesLabel -> {"x", "y"}], RotateLabel -> True]

According to the Mathematica documentation RotateLabel is a Graphics option that should also be working with Plot or ListPlot.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

I always thought that this option is automatically used in the funcltions like Plot if the option Frame->True is used. So the label is rotated by default, but if it should not be rotated, use RotateLabel->False. — Alexei Boulbitch, May 14 '18 at 13:00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '18 at 13:36

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RotateLabel is exclusively for Frame, not for Axes.

As a workaround, you can rotate any piece of text using Rotate before rendering it.

answered May 14 '18 at 13:36

Szabolcs

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Thanks. This only rotates the text, but I would also like to place the label besides the y-axis, not above it. – benybenjamin May 14 '18 at 14:44
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@benybenjamin Then the best solution is to use a Frame. Note that you can turn on and off the four frame borders independently. You can keep only the left and bottom ones for an axes-like look. – Szabolcs May 14 '18 at 14:47
@benybenjamin Sorry, I just noticed that you already found it. – Szabolcs May 14 '18 at 14:49

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '18 at 14:43

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I've found the answer here.

This works for my example:

Plot[x, {x, 0, 2}, Axes -> False, Frame -> {{True, False}, {True, False}}, FrameLabel -> {{"a very long label for the y-axis", None}, {"x", None}}, FrameTicks -> All]

Thanks.

answered May 14 '18 at 14:43

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RotateLabel is not working in Plot

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