Plotly R: setting the spacing between axis label and axis ticks labels

Question

Is there any way to set a spacing between axis labels and axis ticks labels other than changing margins?

Example plot:

plot_ly(mtcars, x = ~ wt, y = ~ pa         


        

Answer 1

The way I dealt with this in Python was to simply add a line break and then whitespace and you can essentially have a blank line that creates the separation. Hacky, but it works. You can see it in the second line.

 yaxis=go.layout.YAxis(
    title_text="Number of Articles
 ",
    titlefont=dict(size=12)),
    paper_bgcolor="white",
    title=go.layout.Title(
    xref="paper",
    x=0.5 
  )

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