title: How do I put more space between the axis labels and axis title in an R boxplot
body: <p>I am creating a boxplot in R with the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>boxplot(perc.OM.y ~ Depth, axes = F, ylim = c(-0.6, 0.2), xlim = c(3.5, 5.5),
          lwd = 0.1, col = 8, 
          ylab = "Loss of Percent Organic Matter per Year", cex.lab = 1.5)
  axis(1, at = c(3.5, 4, 5, 5.5), labels = c(" ", "Shallow", "Deep", " "), 
       cex.axis = 1.5)
  axis(2, cex.axis = 1.5)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is that the number labels on the y-axis currently overlap the axis title.  Is there a way to put more space between the axis title and the axis number labels?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks    </p>