[R] postscript cuts off left margin

[Eileen Meyer]

I found the answer, sorry for not waiting longer before asking.

For anyone reading the archives, inserting

par(mar=c(5,4,4,2)+0.5) should alleviate the problem (default is +0.1).

In general,

help(par)

is a good thing to check for graphical issues.


On 03/07/2011 04:53 PM, Eileen Meyer wrote:
> I am using the following commands:
>
>
> postscript(file="test.eps",paper="special",width=6,height=6,horizontal=FALSE) 
>
>
> # fake data
> x <- c(12,13,14)
> y <- c(41,42,43)
>
> plot(x,y,type="n",xlab=expression(paste("log ",nu[peak]," 
> [Hz]",sep="")),ylab=expression(paste("log ",L[peak]," [",ergs," 
> ",s^-1,"]",sep="")),ylim=c(41,48),yaxt="n",xaxt="n",xlim=c(12,18),cex.lab=1.3)
> axis(2,at=c(41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48),labels=expression(41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48),las=1,cex.axis=1.3) 
>
> axis(1,at=c(12,13,14,15,16,17),labels=expression(12,13,14,15,16,17),cex.axis=1.3) 
>
> dev.off()
>
> The generated output cuts off the left-hand margin. Unfortunately you 
> cannot fix this after the fact with bounding box as it is already set 
> at llx = 0.
> I have looked through the help for postscript output in R, but I don't 
> see anything which allows me to set the margins.  The page size (6x6) 
> is chosen because it yields a figure which has nice proportions for my 
> paper.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Eileen
>
>
>


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