Yes, Thankyou, that does the trick nicely. I thought that kind of thing could be specified using par() but I guess not.
Thanks again. > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Simon Pickett wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to (if possible) set the default width and height for >> graphs >> at the start of each session and have each new graphic device overwrite >> the previous one. > > Hmm. It is graphics devices that have dimensions, and plots that > overwrite other plots on a device, so your intentions are pretty unclear. > (If you resize a device window the plot dimensions change so they are not > intrinsic to the plot.) > > If you want the default behaviour to be like normal but with, say, a wider > onscreen device window you can have (on Windows, which you didn't say) > > mywindows <- function(...) windows(width=10, height=6, ...) > options(device="mywindows") > > in your ~/.Rprofile . Otherwise, please try again to tell us what you > do want. > > >> >> I only know how to do this using windows(width=,height=...) which opens >> up >> a new plotting device every time, so I end up with lots of graphs all >> over >> the place until I get the one I want! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Simon >> >> >> Simon Pickett >> PhD student >> Centre For Ecology and Conservation >> Tremough Campus >> University of Exeter in Cornwall >> TR109EZ >> Tel 01326371852 >> >> http://www.uec.ac.uk/biology/research/phd-students/simon_pickett.shtml >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > Simon Pickett PhD student Centre For Ecology and Conservation Tremough Campus University of Exeter in Cornwall TR109EZ Tel 01326371852 http://www.uec.ac.uk/biology/research/phd-students/simon_pickett.shtml ______________________________________________ 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.
