[R] asp=1 and aspect ratio

[Liaw, Andy]

Try par(pty="s").

HTH,
Andy

> From: Robin Hankin
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> I want a square scatterplot with abline(0,1) going exactly through the
> SW and NE corners.  By "square" I mean that the plotting region is
> exactly square, and that the axis limits are identical.
> 
> x <- 1:20
> y <- x+rep(c(-1,1),10)
> lims <- range(c(x,y))
> 
> None of the following do this:
> 
> plot(x,y) ; abline(0,1)         #not square
> plot(x,y,asp=1);abline(0,1)     #diagonal line misses corners
> 
> plot(x,y,asp=1,xaxs="i",yaxs="i");abline(0,1)
> #diagonal line misses corners
> 
> plot(x,y,xaxs="i",yaxs="i");abline(0,1)
> #not square and diag misses corners
> 
> plot(x,y,xlim=lims,ylim=lims,xaxs="i",yaxs="i");abline(0,1)
> #not square
> 
> plot(x,y,asp=1,xlim=lims,ylim=lims,xaxs="i",yaxs="i");abline(0,1)
> #not square (plotting region about 8cm by 9.5cm)
> 
> 
> 
> If I wrap the above lines in
> 
> postscript(file="foo.ps", width=5,height=5)
> [...snip...]
> dev.off()
> 
> then still none of the plots is exactly right [either one or both
> corners are missed, or the aspect ratio off].  What am I missing?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Robin Hankin
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> Southampton Oceanography Centre
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