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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, gatemaze at gmail.com wrote:

> Yes, I already had a look on previous posts but nothing is really helpful to
> me.

I have never seen anyone do this before ....

> The code is:
>
> postscript(filename, horizontal=FALSE, onefile=FALSE, paper="special",

You have not set a width or height, so please do your homework.

> bg="white", family="ComputerModern", pointsize=10);
> par(mar=c(5, 4, 0, 0) + 0.1);
> plot(x.nor, y.nor, xlim=c(3,6), ylim=c(20,90), pch=normal.mark);
>
> gives error
> Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large
>
> plotting on the screen without calling postscript works just fine .
>
> Any clues? Thanks.
>
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