[R] Centring titles for pairs of plots --- a solution.

[Rolf Turner]

That's cute.  I had *thought* about using layout(), but of
course didn't see the trick of specifying *9* plots and doing
each of the text()s in a new plot.  Very suave! :-)

Thanks.

	cheers,

		Rolf

On 10/11/2010, at 3:32 PM, Paul Murrell wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Here's one approach ...
> 
> # The layout's the important bit
> layout(rbind(c(7, 7),
>              c(1, 2),
>              c(8, 8),
>              c(3, 4),
>              c(9, 9),
>              c(5, 6)),
>        heights=c(1, 5, 1, 5, 1, 5))
> 
> # Dummy plots
> par(mar=c(5.1, 3.1, 0, 2))
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="")
> plot(10:1, xlab="", ylab="")
> 
> # Year labels
> par(mar=rep(0, 4))
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2004, cex=1.5, font=2)
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2005, cex=1.5, font=2)
> plot.new()
> text(.5, .5, 2006, cex=1.5, font=2)
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 10/11/2010 3:13 p.m., Rolf Turner wrote:
>> 
>> I have figured out a *slightly* less kludgy way of accomplishing
>> my goal.  Still a bit of a hack, but it works and seems to be
>> consistent across graphics devices.
>> 
>> Essentially it's this:  After the *first* plot in each row, do:
>> 
>> 	U<- par()$usr
>>         XD<- diff(U[1:2])
>>         YD<- diff(U[3:4])
>>         text(U[1]+1.05*XD,U[3]+1.15*YD,labels=YR,adj=0,font=2,cex=1.5,xpd=NA)
>> 
>> where "YR" is the current value of the calendar year (e.g. 2004).  Note that
>> xpd=NA is necessary since the text is being placed outside the plotting region
>> and hence will not appear unless this parameter is properly set.
>> 
>> Hope this is of some use to someone besides my very good self. :-)
>> 
>> 	cheers,
>> 
>> 		Rolf Turner
>> 
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