You do want outer margins, that is where the axis labels and tick marks will go for the plots that you want.
Try: par(mar=c(0,0,0,0), oma=c(5,4,1,1)+0.1) Then do your plots to see if that is what you want. -- 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 mnstn > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:49 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Multiple figures margin problem > > > Hello All, > I am trying to make a figure with 3x2 plots in it. Let us name the > plots as > such: > > 1 2 > 3 4 > 5 6 > > I begin my script with: > par(mfcol=c(3,2)) > par(oma=c(0,0,0,0)) --> This is for a postscript figure so I really > don't > need the outer margins. > d=5 > par(mar=c(d,d,d,d)) --> This applies to all the 6 plots. > > Now if d=0, plots 1-2,3-4 and 5-6 will have no gap between them and 1- > 3-5 > and 2-4-6 will not have any spacing either. This is how I want it. But > I > also want y axis points and y label for 1, 3 and 5 and x axis points > and > labels for 5 and 6. With d=0, there is no space left for these labels. > With > d=5 (for ex.) I can have the labels but it also introduces a gap of 'd' > text > lines between the plots. I have tried: > > par(mar=c(0,d,0,0)) > plot 1 > par(mar=c(0,d,0,0)) > plot 3 > par(mar=c(d,d,0,0)) > plot 5 > par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) > plot 2 > par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) > plot 4 > par(mar=c(d,0,0,0)) > plot 6 > > But in this approach, the plots are all not of the same size because of > differences in margins and I want all the plots to be square and look > similar when printed. Do have any comments or suggestions on how to go > about > doing it? > Thanks, > MoonStone > -- > View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Multiple-figures- > margin-problem-tp1490455p1490455.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
