[BioC] Changing margins on a boxplot

[Al Ivens]

Many thanks, just the trick!

a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarno Tuimala [mailto:jtuimala at csc.fi] 
> Sent: 22 April 2008 11:04
> To: Al Ivens
> Cc: 'bioc'
> Subject: Re: [BioC] Changing margins on a boxplot
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> You can set margins to boxplot (or any plot for that matter) 
> by first setting 
> the graphical parameters, e.g.:
> 
> par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))     # Removes margins
> par(mar=c(5,4,4,2)+0.1) # Default
> par(mar=c(8,8,4,2))     # Larger bottom and left margins
> 
> and then calling the boxplot function:
> 
> boxplot(rnorm(100))
> 
> You can do this using the pars -argument in the boxplot 
> command, also, e.g.:
> 
> boxplot(n, pars=list(par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))))
> 
> - Jarno
> 
> 
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Al Ivens wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am generating a multiple boxplot for my data, and trying 
> to include 
> > several pieces of information for each box along the x axis.  I can 
> > generate the labels fine, but can not increase the margins 
> to enable 
> > me to see them all.  I am used to using
> >
> > margins=c(5,8)
> >
> > or similar, but this does not work for box plots as far as 
> I can see.  
> > I tried passing:
> >
> > ...,pars="margins=c(5,8)",...
> >
> > to the boxplot command line, but to no avail.
> >
> > Is there a simple way of doing it?
> >
> > Cheers and thanks for any guidance!
> >
> > a
> >
> >
> >
> > R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> > i386-pc-mingw32
> >
> > locale:
> > LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> > Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> > Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> >
> >
> >
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