[R] Layout() coordinates and drawing lines / segments
Paul Murrell
p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz
Thu Jun 26 21:51:27 CEST 2008
Hi
Take a look at ...
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/basegraphics.pdf
... it's getting old, but a lot of what it says should still hold,
especially the stuff about coordinate systems and what you can draw where.
Paul
maria at meteo.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to wrap my head around the coordinates systems associated with
> the layout() function ...with the end goal of simply drawing a decorative
> line in the upper margin of my figure, which is composed of three plots.
>
> My output is defined as this:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> postscript("out.ps", horizontal=FALSE,
> +width=7.5,height=11.5,pointsize=10, paper = "special" )
>
> opar <- par(omi=c(0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1))
>
> layout_mat = matrix(c(1,2,3),nrow=3,ncol=1,byrow=TRUE)
> my_layout <-
> layout(layout_mat,widths=c(1,1,1),heights=c(1,1.5,1.5),respect=FALSE)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 2 Questions:
> How do i find what are the x,y's of the upper margin ?
> (I've heard of locator() but i don't think i can use it here as i have an
> output file)
>
> And, also, am i allowed to draw lines using segments() or lines() in the
> margin regions -- defined by omi, oma -- of my figure, or are those
> functions confined to plot regions ?
>
>
> Thank You a lot,
> maria
>
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