[R] FW: how to change the margins of a plot area

[Lathouri, Maria]

Dear all

I am sorry about that; I thought that since in R csv formats are acceptable, it will be here as well. I have attached it in a text format.

I hope now it is better.

Thank you
Maria

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From: David Winsemius [dwinsemius at comcast.net]
Sent: 13 March 2011 18:24
To: Lathouri, Maria
Subject: Re: [R] how to change the margins of a plot area

Please read the Posting Guide and note that ".csv" files are NOT
mentioned as one of the acceptable formats for attachments to postings!


On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Lathouri, Maria wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I have attached a file in a csv format, with two variables; the code
> that I am using to plot the boxplots is
>> boxplot(ALKY, CL, ylab="Concentration", lwd=0.7, boxwex=0.4)
>
> I hope this will help.
>
> Thanks
> Maria
>
> ________________________________________
> From: John Kane [jrkrideau at yahoo.ca]
> Sent: 13 March 2011 13:19
> To: r-help at r-project.org; Lathouri, Maria
> Subject: Re: [R] how to change the margins of a plot area
>
> Hi Maria,
> I think we need some sample data and code to really be ablo to help.
>
> in the meantime have have a look at ?par for general plotting info.
>
> --- On Sun, 3/13/11, Lathouri, Maria <m.lathouri06 at imperial.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> From: Lathouri, Maria <m.lathouri06 at imperial.ac.uk>
>> Subject: [R] how to change the margins of a plot area
>> To: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
>> Received: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 8:15 AM
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am ploting two boxplot of two chemical variables using
>> the format
>> boxplot(Alkalinity, logAlkalinity, log="y",
>> col=c("lightblue"), lwd=0.6, boxwex=0.3)
>>
>> However when I plot like this, the distance between the two
>> boxplots is very big and as well the distance of each
>> boxplot from the plot area, left and right. How can I
>> minimise that distance between the boxplots and as well the
>> distance of each boxplot from the left and right margin of
>> the plot area?
>>
>> Another question is that when I write in the above
>> ylab="Concentration", I get in the y axis as well in each
>> tick and a number. How can I not have this but only the
>> text?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Maria
>>
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