[R] postscript help

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Richard Liston wrote:

> I'm creating some figures in R using the postscript device.
> The figures will be reduced a great deal, so I need to increase
> the labels on the X and Y axes a great deal. When I use cex.lab=2,
> the label on the Y axis chopped off at the top. I tried a workaround
> by setting paper="special" and using different widths and heights,
> but no luck. Suggestions appreciated.

Use pointsize in the postscript() call. That way the margins will be set
at the right size for the labels.

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