[R] Plot Area Dimensions
Dear colleagues, I wish to create a figure with 6 plots arranged vertically with no spacing between them as they all have a common x-axis. However, using the code below I'm unable to get the plot area the same size for each plot. The bottom plot with the x-axis label is smaller than the others, as is the top plot which has larger margins. How can I get the plot region the same size for all 6 plots, whislt still having a large enough margin for the x-axis label on the bottom plot? y-rnorm(1:100) x-rnorm(1:100) par(mfrow=c(6,1)) par(mar=c(0,5,2,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(0,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(4,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=x, ylab=y) Regards Richard -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Plot-Area-Dimensions-tp4650051.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] Plot Area Dimensions
I think this task would be easier in lattice library(lattice) xyplot(y + y + y + y + y + y ~ x, outer=TRUE, layout=c(1,6), strip=FALSE, strip.left=TRUE, ylab=6 copies of the Y variable, main=put an interesting title here) Six different y variables instead of six copies of the same would give a more interesting plot: tmp - data.frame(matrix(rnorm(700), 100, 7, dimnames=list(1:100, c(x,y1,y2,y3,y4,y5,y6 xyplot(y1 + y2 + y3 + y4 + y5 + y6 ~ x, data=tmp, outer=TRUE, layout=c(1,6), strip=FALSE, strip.left=TRUE, ylab=6 levels of the y response, main=put an interesting title here) Rich On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard James richard.j.coo...@uea.ac.ukwrote: Dear colleagues, I wish to create a figure with 6 plots arranged vertically with no spacing between them as they all have a common x-axis. However, using the code below I'm unable to get the plot area the same size for each plot. The bottom plot with the x-axis label is smaller than the others, as is the top plot which has larger margins. How can I get the plot region the same size for all 6 plots, whislt still having a large enough margin for the x-axis label on the bottom plot? y-rnorm(1:100) x-rnorm(1:100) par(mfrow=c(6,1)) par(mar=c(0,5,2,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(0,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(4,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=x, ylab=y) Regards Richard -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Plot-Area-Dimensions-tp4650051.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] Plot Area Dimensions
You can also use layout() with base graphics. This example sets up a column of 14 strips and allocates 3 strips to the top and bottom graphs and 2 strips To the four middle graphs. Using Richard's tmp dataframe: layout(matrix(c(1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6), 14, 1)) layout.show(6) par(mar=c(0,5,2,5)) plot(y1~x, tmp, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(0,5,0,5)) plot(y2~x, tmp, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y3~x, tmp, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y4~x, tmp, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y5~x, tmp, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(4,5,0,5)) plot(y6~x, tmp, xlab=x, ylab=y) - David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas AM University College Station, TX 77843-4352 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Richard M. Heiberger Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 2:26 PM To: Richard James Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Plot Area Dimensions I think this task would be easier in lattice library(lattice) xyplot(y + y + y + y + y + y ~ x, outer=TRUE, layout=c(1,6), strip=FALSE, strip.left=TRUE, ylab=6 copies of the Y variable, main=put an interesting title here) Six different y variables instead of six copies of the same would give a more interesting plot: tmp - data.frame(matrix(rnorm(700), 100, 7, dimnames=list(1:100, c(x,y1,y2,y3,y4,y5,y6 xyplot(y1 + y2 + y3 + y4 + y5 + y6 ~ x, data=tmp, outer=TRUE, layout=c(1,6), strip=FALSE, strip.left=TRUE, ylab=6 levels of the y response, main=put an interesting title here) Rich On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Richard James richard.j.coo...@uea.ac.ukwrote: Dear colleagues, I wish to create a figure with 6 plots arranged vertically with no spacing between them as they all have a common x-axis. However, using the code below I'm unable to get the plot area the same size for each plot. The bottom plot with the x-axis label is smaller than the others, as is the top plot which has larger margins. How can I get the plot region the same size for all 6 plots, whislt still having a large enough margin for the x-axis label on the bottom plot? y-rnorm(1:100) x-rnorm(1:100) par(mfrow=c(6,1)) par(mar=c(0,5,2,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(0,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(4,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=x, ylab=y) Regards Richard -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Plot-Area-Dimensions-tp4650051.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] Plot Area Dimensions
The key is to not change the margins, set them once and stick with those margins. The next question then becomes how do I leave area at the top/bottom for the title and common axis? to which the answer is Set outer margins at the beginning. Modifying your code: y-rnorm(1:100) x-rnorm(1:100) par(mfrow=c(6,1), mar=c(0,5,0,5), oma=c(4,0,2,0)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=x, ylab=y) On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Richard James richard.j.coo...@uea.ac.ukwrote: Dear colleagues, I wish to create a figure with 6 plots arranged vertically with no spacing between them as they all have a common x-axis. However, using the code below I'm unable to get the plot area the same size for each plot. The bottom plot with the x-axis label is smaller than the others, as is the top plot which has larger margins. How can I get the plot region the same size for all 6 plots, whislt still having a large enough margin for the x-axis label on the bottom plot? y-rnorm(1:100) x-rnorm(1:100) par(mfrow=c(6,1)) par(mar=c(0,5,2,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(0,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) plot(y~x, xlab=, xaxt=n, ylab=y) par(mar=c(4,5,0,5)) plot(y~x, xlab=x, ylab=y) Regards Richard -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Plot-Area-Dimensions-tp4650051.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
