Many thanks to both who replied, Ulrike and Petr. Indeed, some playing with the margin-sizing options solved my problem.
All the best, Primož 2009/9/29 Ulrike Groemping <groemp...@bht-berlin.de>: > > Hello Primoz, > > with traditional graphics, you may want to use par (?par), options like mar, > mai, oma etc. may be interesting for you. And for the relation between > y-axis and x-axis, the option asp to function plot (?plot.default) will > help. > > Regards, Ulrike > > > > Primoz PETERLIN-2 wrote: >> >> Hello everybody, >> >> I am sure this is a beginners' problem which is being asked >> recurrently every few months, but nevertheless I wasn't able to find >> the answer searching through the r-help list. >> >> So here is my problem: I would like to plot a set of points (y vs. x), >> a (linear) regression line through them, and on the second graph >> underneath the first one I would want to plot residuals vs. x. I came >> up with two solutions, unfortunately neither of them is fully >> satisfactory. >> >> First I tried with what I later learned is called traditional graphics >> (file norris.R). Here, the white space margins around the plots are >> too wide, meaning that the data in the plot are crammed. Probably I >> would be quite happy if I could somehow define a rectangular plotting >> area with its height being ~150% of its width, but I cannot prevent R >> from offering me a square plotting area. >> >> Next I tried a lattice package (file norris.lattice.R). Here, the >> margins are smaller, but the lower plot does not fit exactly under the >> upper one (the x-axes should match). >> >> Most likely I am not using the correct terminology (if I would have >> known it, I could have looked in the help pages myself, thank you :), >> but I hope that the attached files make more sense of what I am trying >> to do. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> All the best, >> Primoz >> >> -- >> Primož Peterlin, Inštitut za biofiziko, Med. fakulteta, Univerza v >> Ljubljani >> Lipičeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija. >> primoz.peter...@mf.uni-lj.si >> Tel +386-1-5437612, fax +386-1-4315127, >> http://biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si/~peterlin/ >> F8021D69 OpenPGP fingerprint: CB 6F F1 EE D9 67 E0 2F 0B 59 AF 0D 79 56 >> 19 0F >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Regression-line-w--residuals---tuning-the-plot-tp25647458p25670483.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > -- Primož Peterlin, Inštitut za biofiziko, Med. fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani Lipičeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija. primoz.peter...@mf.uni-lj.si Tel +386-1-5437612, fax +386-1-4315127, http://biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si/~peterlin/ F8021D69 OpenPGP fingerprint: CB 6F F1 EE D9 67 E0 2F 0B 59 AF 0D 79 56 19 0F ______________________________________________ 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.
