Thank you both! The hint with the pty="s" was very useful. I did not know it before.
Ciao, Antje Ivar Herfindal schrieb: > Dear Antje > > I cannot see that you have got any replies yet, so I will make and > attempt. However, I am sure other have more formally correct solutions. > > When you call the pdf(), you can set paper="a4" (or "a4r" for > landscape). However, the width and the height of your plot should then > not exceed the size of the paper (which is approximately 8.27*11.69 > inches for "a4"). Try (I have only tested on windows XP, R 2.5.0): > > pdf("test1.pdf", width=10, heigh=5, paper="a4r") > par(mfrow=c(1,3), pty="s") #pty="s" gives square plotting regions > plot(rnorm(100)) > plot(rnorm(100)) > plot(rnorm(100)) > dev.off() > > Hope this helps > > Ivar > > > Antje skrev: >> I still have this problem. Does anybody know any solution? >> >> Antje >> >> Antje schrieb: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to plot a set of barplots like a matrix (2 rows, 10 >>> columns from"reduced_mat") to a pdf. It works with the following >>> parameters: >>> >>> pdf("test.pdf",width=ncol(reduced_mat)*2, height=nrow(reduced_mat)*2, >>> pointsize = 12) >>> >>> par(mfcol = c(nrow(reduced_mat),ncol(reduced_mat)), oma = c(0,0,0,0), >>> lwd=48/96, cex.axis = 0.5, las = 2, cex.main = 1.0) >>> >>> The I get a long narrow page format with the quadratic barplots. >>> >>> But I would like to have a A4 format in the end and the plots not >>> filling the whole page (they should stay somehow quadratic and not be >>> stretched...). >>> >>> What shall I look for to achieve this? >>> >>> Antje >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.