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") 

I can adjust the position of the axis titles using:

par(mgp = c(2.5, 1, 0)) 

But I see no way to similarly adjust the main title. I am aware that more manual control is possible using title or mtext, but I assume that there is a way setting the title distance using par as well, which would be more elegant for my purposes.

Answer 1

We can use title() function with negative line value to bring down the title.

See this example:

plot(1, 1) title("Title", line = -2) 

Answer 2

To summarize and explain visually how it works. Code construction is as follows:

par(mar = c(3,2,2,1)) barplot(...all parameters...) title("Title text", adj = 0.5, line = 0) 

explanation:

par(mar = c(low, left, top, right)) - margins of the graph area.  title("text" - title text       adj  = from left (0) to right (1) with anything in between: 0.1, 0.2, etc...       line = positive values move title text up, negative - down)