thank you!
It seems like the problem was the layout-function automatically changing the
cex parameter for the subplots.
adding par(cex =1) after the layout() call solved it.
Now, character expansion levels seem equal across plots.
On Feb 27, 2013, at 00:57 , Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you queried the value of 'cex' and related parameters at the different
> time points?
>
> The help page for par says that when you set mfcol or mfrow that cex is
> changed, but I don't know if the layout function also changes those or not.
> I would start by peppering your code with calls to par('cex') to see what R
> thinks the parameter is at the time of the different plots. That may answer
> your question, or if not at least give up more information to work with.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Martin Batholdy <batho...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to make multiple plots look as similar as possible.
>
>
> I create each plot with pdf(), using the same height but different width in
> inch.
> For some plots I use the layout() function to draw multiple subplots side by
> side in one pdf.
>
> For each plot I use the same cex values for the different plotting functions
> (cex.axis, cex.lab, cex.points etc.)
>
> Still, when I compare the pdf's the axis labels, titles etc. have different
> size factors!
>
> Is that expected?
>
> I thought by fixing the height parameter and using the same character
> expansion values I would end up with similar plots
> (and especially same font size across pdfs).
>
> How can I make sure that across multiple plot calls the character expansion
> level (font size) is the same?
>
>
>
> thanks!
>
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