Part of the space between the boxplots is the margin area, you can remove that. You can also adjust the width of the box within the plot:
layout(matrix(c(1,2,3), 3, 1, byrow = TRUE), heights=c(0.3,0.3,0.6)) op <- par(mar=c(0,4,0,2)+0.1) boxplot(rnorm(100), horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE, width=1) boxplot(rnorm(100), horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE, width=1) par(op) hist(rnorm(100)) What might work even better is to combine your 2 vectors for the boxplots into a single list, then call the boxplot function only once, this will give you more control of the spacing within a single plot. layout(matrix( 1:2, 2, 2),heights=c(1,1)) tmp <- list( rnorm(100,0,1), rnorm(100, 1, 2) ) boxplot(tmp, horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE) hist(rnorm(100)) On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:43 PM, philippe massicotte < pmassico...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear R users. > > I'm new with layout and I can't figure how to teak my graphs. > > I have the following code: > > layout(matrix(c(1,2,3), 3, 1, byrow = TRUE), heights=c(0.3,0.3,0.6)) > boxplot(rnorm(100), horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE) > boxplot(rnorm(100), horizontal=TRUE, axes=FALSE) > hist(rnorm(100)) > > > Is it possible to have the two horizontal boxplot closer to each other? > > With regards, > Phil > > > [[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. > -- 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.
