[R] Fw: Plotting in subareas using par(fig=) parameter

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Rex_Bryan at urscorp.com wrote:

> Any idea why I can no longer plot two graphs on the same graphics device
> using the par(fig=) parameter?
> A simpler par(mfrow=c(1,2)) does work, showing the two plots side-by-side,
> but I would like the first
> to be larger.   This simple example fails:
> 
> 
> x<-c(1,1,NA,2,2,NA,3,3)
> y<-c(2,4,NA,3,5,NA,1,4)
> 
> par(fig=c(0,2/3,0,1))
> plot(x,y)
> 
> par(fig=c(2/3,1,0,1))

add par(new=TRUE) here, as you want to plot again in the same device 
region.

> qqnorm(x)
> 
> When plotted, the last figure qqnorm(x) is alone on the graphics display.
> The first figure plot(x,y) disapears.
> I'm even more puzzled in that I'm sure that I had this type of command
> working before.


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