[R] How to change the margin widths in png-plots?

[Atte Tenkanen]

I found one solution. It may be unofficial but it works. I put the 
par(mar=c(5.1, 7.1, 4.1, 2.1)) command between png() and plot() -commands.

Atte

> Hello,
> 
> I have tried to change the margin widths so that mtext (here "sd 
> of  
> consecutive pc intervals", look at the picture) and  
> plot(...,xlab="bar") fits to the picture.
> 
> Here is an example:
> http://users.utu.fi/attenka/margins.png
> 
> This doesn't help:
> par(mar=c(5.1, 7.1, 4.1, 2.1))
> 
> And here are the commands:
> 
> png(filename="/Users/kone/Vaitostutkimus/Pictures/ 
> BachBWV60_sd_cons_pc_int.png", width = 2800, height = 
> 1200,pointsize =  
> 12, bg = "white");
> plot(Compo_SD_succ_int_array_vector,ylim=c(0.40,1.9),col="white",xlab="b 
> ar",ylab="", cex.lab=3, cex.axis=2);
> mtext("sd of consecutive pc intervals", side=2, line=0,  
> padj=-1.8,at=1.2, cex=3)
> lines(Compo_SD_succ_int_array_vector,col=1,lty=1,lwd=2);
> text(2,0.93,labels="*",cex=3) # "an asterisk..."
> dev.off();
> 
> What do I do next?
> 
> Atte Tenkanen, Turku Finland
>