ahh, perfect, thanks.

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-10-02, at 13:08 , Jim Lemon wrote:

> On 10/02/2011 07:20 PM, Hofert Jan Marius wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> this should be trivial, but I couldn't figure out how to solve it... I would 
>> like to have a plot with fixed aspect ratio of 1. Whenever I resize the 
>> Quartz window, the axes are extended so that the plot fills the whole 
>> window. However, if you have different extensions for the different axes, 
>> the plot does not look  like "a square" anymore (i.e., aspect ratio 1). The 
>> same of course happens if you print it to .pdf (ultimate goal). How can I 
>> fix the plot box (formed by the axes) ratio to be 1, meaning that the plot 
>> box is a square no matter how I resize the Quartz window?
>> 
>> I searched for this and found: 
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/04/2888.html
>> It is more or less recommended to use lattice's xyplot for that. Is there no 
>> solution for base graphics?
>> [I know that the extension is by default 4% and that's great, but the the 
>> size of the Quartz window should not change this (which it does if you 
>> resize the window accordingly)].
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
>> 
>> Minimal example:
>> u<- runif(10)
>> pdf(width=5, height=5)
>> plot(u, u, asp=1, xlim=c(0,1), ylim=c(0,1), main="My title")
>> dev.off()
>> 
> Hi Marius,
> Have you tried:
> 
> par(pty="s")
> 
> after you open the device and before plotting?
> 
> Jim
> 

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