Hi Christian,
When I have to do something like this, I usually write it in
Postscript using this:
/def mm 2.8346 mul
that converts a dimension in mm to points (1/72 inch). However, this
won't work in R. It may be possible to set up the device like this:
postscript("myfile.ps",paper="a4")
par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
# generate a blank plot
plot(0,type="n",xlim=c(0,210),ylim=c(0,297),axes=FALSE)
# display lines, etc. in mm with 0,0 at the bottom left
dev.off()
The resulting file should be printable. Warning, I don't have time to
test this right now.
Jim
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Christian Brandstätter
<bran.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Is it possible to plot in R in "real" units? I would like to draw a
> plot on A4 paper, where 1 plot unit would be a mm in reality. Is
> something like that possible? I would also like to be able to scale the
> plot in x and y direction.
> Background: For a project I would have to draw around 65 fast sketches
> of elevation courves.
>
> Copied from here, due to no answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions
> /50606797/plot-in-real-units-mm
>
> Thank you!
>
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