Re: [R] Can't figure out why short figure won't work

2013-07-26 Thread Frank Harrell
[Sorry I can't quote past messages as I get mail on Nabble and have been told I can't reply through Nabble]. Thanks Kennel for recommended a narrowing range for usr y-limits. That does help quite a bit. But I found a disappointing aspect of the graphics system: When you change height= on

Re: [R] Can't figure out why short figure won't work

2013-07-26 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
lattice graphics allow you to specify units in cm or inches, and then the absolute vertical positioning can be controlled. On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Frank Harrell f.harr...@vanderbilt.eduwrote: [Sorry I can't quote past messages as I get mail on Nabble and have been told I can't reply

[R] Can't figure out why short figure won't work

2013-07-25 Thread Frank Harrell
I can't get the points and a and b to render correctly (they are squeezed into the axis) unless I make the height of the figure waste a lot of space. I'd appreciate any ideas. The code is below. Thanks! png('/tmp/z.png', width=480, height=100) par(mar=c(3,.5,1,.5)) plot.new() par(usr=c(-10,

Re: [R] Can't figure out why short figure won't work

2013-07-25 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
I tried text(.25*1500, .14, 'a', col='blue') text(.196*1500,.14, 'b', col='blue') and got improved spacing. Another option is to take control of ylim, and extend the bottom of ylim a bit lower than the automatically defined value. Rich On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Frank Harrell

Re: [R] Can't figure out why short figure won't work

2013-07-25 Thread Jim Lemon
On 07/26/2013 08:54 AM, Frank Harrell wrote: I can't get the points and a and b to render correctly (they are squeezed into the axis) unless I make the height of the figure waste a lot of space. I'd appreciate any ideas. The code is below. Thanks! png('/tmp/z.png', width=480, height=100)