[R] Multpile (45x8) graphs of the same page / device: titles crammed

[Detlef Steuer]

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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:22:55 -0500
"tsunhin wong" <thjwong at gmail.com> wrote:

> What if cex=0.001 with font=1 will still have the title font too
> large? (so that the upper halves of title is cut off and cannot be
> seen?)
> Will there be a workaround? Can there be a work around so that I can
> label each small graphs with the info I need in a "smaller" way?

I'd put the needed info in the graph with text().

detlef

> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
>       John
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:57 AM, baptiste auguie <ba208 at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > "font" should be an integer as described in ?par. I think you want to play
> > with cex.main (possibly cex in combination, depending on what your are
> > plotting)
> >
> >> x <- seq(0, 10)
> >>
> >> pdf(width=8, height=20)
> >> par(mfrow=c(45, 8), mai=c(0,0.1,0.1,0))
> >>
> >> sapply(1:(45*8), function(ii) {
> >>        plot(x, rnorm(x))
> >>        title(paste("test", ii), cex.main=0.5)
> >>        }) -> b.quiet
> >> dev.off()
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > baptiste
> >
> > On 10 Dec 2008, at 13:42, tsunhin wong wrote:
> >
> >> Dear R users,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to plot 45x8 graphs on the same pdf / device for the sake
> >> of visual comparison.
> >> par(mfcol=c(45,8))
> >> par(mai=c(0,0,0,0))
> >>
> >> In ?title, I can see there are cex and font settings: I set cex = 0.01
> >> and font = 1: it is still very large, and then I tried setting font <
> >> 1, e.g. font = 0.5, Then I get an error:
> >>
> >> Error in title(paste(Ppercent, "% ", "t30v2msa1.data", sep=""), cex = 0.1,
> >> :
> >>     invalid value specified for graphical parameter "font"
> >>
> >> Is there a work around so that I can see all the title?
> >> At the moment, if I set the title to font=1, the upper halves of the
> >> fonts / letters of all the title will be cut, so I can't see the
> >> "Ppercent"...
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >>     John
> >>
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> >
> > _____________________________
> >
> > Baptiste Auguié
> >
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