[R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space

[Greg Snow]

Use par with oma to leave room for the overall title, then you need another function to create the title.  The mtext function is probably the easiest.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adele_Thompson at cargill.com [mailto:Adele_Thompson at cargill.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 2:21 PM
> To: Greg Snow; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space
> 
> Easy fix. Under ?par, I don't see where I can enter an overall title.
> Should I add a text command or something?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg.Snow at imail.org [mailto:Greg.Snow at imail.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 03:17 PM
> To: Thompson, Adele - Adele_Thompson at cargill.com; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: RE: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space
> 
> Look at the help for par, specifically the section on 'mar' to set the
> per plot margins smaller and the section on 'oma' to leave room for the
> overall title.
> 
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow at imail.org
> 801.408.8111
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> > project.org] On Behalf Of Schatzi
> > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 2:13 PM
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > Subject: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space
> >
> > I am plotting 28 plots on one screen:
> > par(mfrow=c(4,7))
> > for (i in 1:28) {
> > a<-seq(1,3,1)
> > plot(a,a, ann=FALSE)
> > }
> >
> > I want a main title for all the plots (I tried using main but that
> > doesn't
> > work). I deleted the axes, but am not sure how to delete the space.
> > There
> > are such large margins between plots so the plots themselves are very
> > small.
> > If I delete the margins I can leave them all on one page as there are
> > only 6
> > points (3 in the example) per plot.
> >
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