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

[Peter Dalgaard]

Antje wrote:
> Hmm, but what can be the solution? Any idea? Or any documentation on 
> that which I could read to find a solution by myself?
>
> with the windows statement, I wanted to achive a format which fits for 
> my plots, so that each plot will have a quadratic area.
>   
OK, so what was the pdf() for?...

Notice that this creates subplots which are one inch square.  By
default  plots are surrounded by 9.2 lines of text vertically (and 6.2
horisontally). Now the distance between lines of text depends on the
pointsize, which is 12pt by default. In subplots, I believe it is
somewhat smaller (8pt?), but 9.2 lines of text still leaves no room for
the actual plot. So, look at help(par) and help(windows) and start
fiddling with pointsize, mar, mgp, and maybe more.
> I guess, I did not unstand that much of windows / margins and plotting 
> areas. Maybe someone can help me (even with a good overview on these 
> basics...)
>
> Antje
>
>
>
> Peter Dalgaard schrieb:
>   
>> 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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