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

[Adele_Thompson at cargill.com]

I just saw this post:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/X11-plot-window-sizes-td900509.html
where is explains that the window size cannot be larger than 85% of your screen. I'm not sure what you are referring to about the copying the whole region, not just the plot. Also, I remember using the width and height, but I am not sure how I used it and am having trouble duplicating it. I cannot put it within the par command. I think it was prior to the par command, but I'm not sure. I need to remember to save a copy of useful commands in a file.

-----Original Message-----
From: gunter.berton at gene.com [mailto:gunter.berton at gene.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:28 AM
To: Thompson, Adele - Adele_Thompson at cargill.com
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space

Presumably you have read the help file and tried specifying width
and/or height, right? Also, note the comment about copying the whole
region, not just the plot.  Does any of this help?

-- Bert

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Schatzi <adele_thompson at cargill.com> wrote:
> I am outputting the plot to a pdf file using the code:
> dev.copy2pdf(file="testing.pdf")
>
> The plots are too small though unless I first manually increase the size in
> R and then use the dev.copy command. Is there a way to automatically
> increase the window size? I tried fin and din, but those do not seem to work
> or they only increase the size to a certain degree, even though I can
> manually increase it to fill my screen.
>
>
> Schatzi wrote:
>>
>> Thanks all for the replies. I am getting better slowly but surely. I
>> imagine that I will get better at figuring out things as well so I don't
>> have to post as many questions. I do lots of searches, but still cannot
>> figure out how to do everything that I need.
>>
>> The new code is as such:
>> par(mfrow=c(4,7), mar=c(2, 2, 2, 1.5), oma=c(1, 1, 4, 0))
>> for (i in 1:28) {
>> a<-seq(1,3,1)
>> plot(a,a, ann=FALSE, main= "plot of a vs a")
>> }
>> mtext("Plot of a vs a",side=3,outer=TRUE)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com [mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 03:25 PM
>> To: Thompson, Adele - Adele_Thompson at cargill.com
>> Cc: Greg.Snow at imail.org; r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space
>>
>> On 11-05-13 4:21 PM, Adele_Thompson at cargill.com wrote:
>>> Easy fix. Under ?par, I don't see where I can enter an overall title.
>>> Should I add a text command or something?
>>
>> mtext() writes text in the margins; argument "outer" puts it in the
>> outer margins.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>
>>> -----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.
>>>
>>
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