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

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

Perfectly official solution.

First open graphic device (ps, png, jpeg, ...) and then change 
parameters according to your wish.

HTH
Petr



On 19 Jun 2006 at 10:15, Atte Tenkanen wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:15:28 +0300
From:           	Atte Tenkanen <attenka at utu.fi>
To:             	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Priority:       	normal
Subject:        	Re: [R] How to change the margin widths in png-plots?

> 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",xla
> > b="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
> >
> 
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Petr Pikal
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