That's cute. I had *thought* about using layout(), but of
course didn't see the trick of specifying *9* plots and doing
each of the text()s in a new plot. Very suave! :-)
Thanks.
cheers,
Rolf
On 10/11/2010, at 3:32 PM, Paul Murrell wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here's one approach ...
>
> # The layout's the important bit
> layout(rbind(c(7, 7),
> c(1, 2),
> c(8, 8),
> c(3, 4),
> c(9, 9),
> c(5, 6)),
> heights=c(1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 5))
>
> # Dummy plots
> par(mar=c(5.1, 3.1, 0, 2))
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
>
> # Year labels
> par(mar=rep(0, 4))
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2004, cex=1.5, font=2)
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2005, cex=1.5, font=2)
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2006, cex=1.5, font=2)
>
> Paul
>
> On 10/11/2010 3:13 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
>>
>> I have figured out a *slightly* less kludgy way of accomplishing
>> my goal. Still a bit of a hack, but it works and seems to be
>> consistent across graphics devices.
>>
>> Essentially it's this: After the *first* plot in each row, do:
>>
>> U<- par()$usr
>> XD<- diff(U[1:2])
>> YD<- diff(U[3:4])
>> text(U[1]+1.05*XD,U[3]+1.15*YD,labels=YR,adj=0,font=2,cex=1.5,xpd=NA)
>>
>> where "YR" is the current value of the calendar year (e.g. 2004). Note that
>> xpd=NA is necessary since the text is being placed outside the plotting
>> region
>> and hence will not appear unless this parameter is properly set.
>>
>> Hope this is of some use to someone besides my very good self. :-)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
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