[R] Error in plot.new() : Figure margins too large

[Peter Dalgaard]

Antje wrote:
> Hello,
>
> was could be the reason for such an error message???
>   
Generically, that the (per-subplot) figure region is so small that
subtracting margins leaves nowhere to plot. Reasons include: Plotting
area too small, too many subplots, too many lines of text in margins,
too large font size in margins.

> I'd like to create a window with 10x6 barplot and save it as pdf.
>
> I tried:
>
> pdf("histogram.pdf",width=7, height=7)
>   
What did you expect the following line to do? I think it doesn't...
> windows(cols, rows)
>   


> par(mfcol = c(rows,cols))
>
> sapply(mat, calcHist)
>
> dev.off()
>
> Within the method of sapply, I call barplot
>
> What is wrong???
>
> Antje
>
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