[R] can't get text to appear over individual panels in multi-panel plot

[Jari Oksanen]

On 18 Jun 2004, at 8:26, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

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> On Thursday 17 June 2004 22:57, Patrick Bennett wrote:
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>> yes, i can reproduce that same graph when i print to the pdf-device.
>> but the panel titles do not appear when I print to the Quartz-device.
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> Hmm. I won't be able to help you then, let's hope someone else can.

I think this is a problem with the quartz device. I have often see that 
margin texts are plotted even in ordinary plot() if quartz thinks there 
is no space for them. They do still appear if you copy the screen 
graphics as a pdf file. In Linux (my principal platform) I typically 
reduce the white margins, but if I use the same mar pars in MacOS X I 
won't get axis labels. Quartz is the culprit I suppose.

Actually, in your example I couldn't get the texts when I saved the 
plot as a pdf (menu entry). However, when I opened an X11 device, the 
text was reproduced OK.  So it looks like a quartz problem.

For X11 in MacOS X: It may not be in the default installation, but it 
is in the installation CD/DVD of MacOS X. Then you got to start it 
explicitly before launching x11() within R shell. In general, I 
wouldn't recommend using x11() in Mac, since quartz() looks so much 
better: x11 looks just as clumsy as x11 in Linux or the ordinary 
Windows plotting device in some other OS. -- And beware: I have a 
suspicion that if you stop your X11 in MacOS X, your mouse will die at 
logout and you got to boot (or restart the mouse demon if you know  who 
he is).

cheers, jari oksanen
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Jari Oksanen, Oulu, Finland