Look at the subplot function in the TeachingDemos package. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Ottorino-Luca Pantani > Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:15 AM > To: ERRE > Subject: [R] Again on overlaying plots (a plot region within a plot > region) > > Dear R-users, > after seeking for help in R-search > I did not find any hint on my particular problem. > Countless help on "true" overlay, but nothing on this. > > > Please consider the following: > > par(mfrow = c(2, 1)) > T <- seq(0, 20, by = 0.01) > ## PLOT 1 > plot(T, 30*exp(-0.65*T), > type = "l" > ) > points(T, 30*exp(-0.26 * T), type = "l", lty = "F8") > points(T, 30*exp(-0.15 * T), type = "l", lty = "39") > ## PLOT 2 > plot(T, 30*exp(-0.65*T), > type = "l", > log= "y" > ) > points(T, 30*exp(-0.26 * T), type = "l", lty = "F8") > points(T, 30*exp(-0.15 * T), type = "l", lty = "39") > > What I would like to do is to draw a square plot of PLOT 1 and > then overlay the *entire* PLOT 2 on the upper right corner of PLOT 1, > when there's a lot of empty space > I have to do that because the publisher asked me not to waste > much space with figures. > > I studied for some time the Paul Murrell's excellent book "R Graphics", > but I did not find what I'm looking for. > > As far as I understand, layout() is intended to flexibly > divide the plot region, not to subdivide the plot region > nor the figure region. > > One solution could be to export PLOT 1 , say as png, > and then overlay on it PLOT 2 with pixmap() as in this example > > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/custombase-pixmap.R > > but it seems to me a bit too much complicate > > Thanks in advance for your time > > > -- > Ottorino-Luca Pantani, Università di Firenze > Dip. Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta > P.zle Cascine 28 50144 Firenze Italia > Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS -- GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ > Version 2.12.9) > ESS version 5.5 -- R 2.10.0 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
