[BioC] image size - How to make bigger images

Heidi Dvinge heidi at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Apr 11 11:11:10 CEST 2011


Hi Assa,

from your post it's not completely clear to me whether it's the figure
itself that's too small, or the writing in the row labels. If it's the
latter, then have a look at the cexRow parameter in heatmap.2 for
increasing the font size.

HTH
\Heidi

> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with my heat maps.
>
> I have a matrix of 222x2 of GO categories. I am using the heatmap.2
> package
> to output an image. either a png or pdf.
>
> My problem is that the labels on the x axis are to many ,so that I can't
> read them.
>
> I would like to make the single item size bigger (row size), so that I
> will
> be able to differentiate between the single lables.
>
> But I didn't find how to do it.
>
> I tried to change the
>
> par(mar = c(3, 3, 2, 5), oma = c(3,2,2,6))
>
>
> and also to make the resolution and sizes of my image bigger
>
> png("image.png",res=600,height=2600,width=2600)
>
>
> But none of these parameters has change the size of the single rows I
> still
> can't read my labels.
>
> Is there a way of making the image bigger?
>
> THX
> Assa
>
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