[R] Making a picture that is wide and small height

[Greg Snow]

Look at the squishplot function in the TeachingDemos package, that may do what you want.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of David Epstein
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:00 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Making a picture that is wide and small height
>
>
> How do I make a picture that is a horizontal strip? I tried
>
> > plot(x=c(1,2,3,4),y=c(1,1,1,1)) #works but screen image is square.
> > pdf("ratio.pdf",height=1,width=6)
> > plot(x=c(1,2,3,4),y=c(1,1,1,1))
> I got the following error message:
> Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large
>
> Is it possible to produce an on-screen picture that is a horizontal
> strip?
> (I use Mac Os X 10.4.11, and quartz().) What about pdf?
>
> I have spent many hours trawling through the online help information
> and
> this forum, without success. Where is this explained?
>
> Thanks for any help
> David
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