On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. The solution i have been persuing is reading Murrell - and > trying to figure out grid / Viewport commands. Is it best to stay in > the base graphics package if possible?
It really depends on what you need to do. Your original example used plot, so I went with par. Murrell's explanation of par() options is also very good. Sarah > On 04/06/2012, at 6:20 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks. So i can call par after the layout command? I did not realise. >> >> Some par options are set by calling par() directly, while others must >> be included in the plot command itself. >> >> Sarah >> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 03/06/2012, at 9:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, June 3, 2012, Matthew Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> Sir, >>> >>> >>> I'm no sir, but you need to spend some quality time reading ?par to lean >>> abot axes and margins. >>> >>> Sarah >>> >>>> >>>> I would like to create a combined line-bar plot, with the line up top and >>>> bar plot below, but with the x-axes suppressed on the topmost plot, the >>>> line and bar plot areas joined by a common line, and the x-axes (of dates) >>>> joined to the bottom part of the bar plot. >>>> >>>> i have been able to format the area using the layout(matrix( ... commands, >>>> but cannot figure out the final step. >>>> >>>> here's the code so far: >>>> >>>> >>>> layout(matrix(c(1,2), 2, 1, byrow=TRUE), widths=c(3,3), heights=c(2,1)) >>>> plot(saDwlPx[,1]) >>>> barplot(saDwlMoM[,1]) >>>> >>>> thanks + best regards >>>> >>>> matt johnson >>>> >>> -- Sarah Goslee http://www.sarahgoslee.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.
