title: How does one move the tick labels closer to the axis?
body: <pre><code>library(ggplot2)
  p &lt;- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y=wt*1000, color = factor(cyl))) + geom_point() 
  p + ylab(&quot;weight (lb)&quot;) +theme_bw()
  </code></pre>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nrvdt.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Nrvdt.png" alt="tick labels too close to vertical axis" /></a></p>
  <p>I would like to move 5000, 4000, 3000, and 2000 closer to the vertical axis. I know one can instead use <code>theme(axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=0.36,hjust=.36))</code> or similar to move the axis title further away, but sometimes I really want to move the tick labels, not the axis title.</p>