[R] Help with the plot function

Bert Gunter bgunter.4567 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 03:41:06 CEST 2017


See

?layout
?split.screen
?par  (the mfrow and mfcol values)

depending exactly on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
Essentially, these all allow you to make separate plots at different
regions of the device.


Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:30 PM, André Luis Neves <andrluis at ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I have the following dataframe:
>
> YEAR <- c(1996 , 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 )
> T_MAR <- c(2.8, 6.5, 5.4,2.4, 4, 4.1, 3, 4.4, 4.5)
> T_APR <- c(5.7, 7.8, 7.7, 4.6, 4.7, 6.2,5.7, 5.9, 7)
> T_MAY <- c(7, 8.8, 10, 6, 5.5, 7.6, 8.5, 7.3, 10.2)
> BUD <- c(87, 98, 93, 85, 89, 91, 87, 92, 92)
> BUD_SE <- c(3.6, 2, 2.4, 4, 2.4, 2.4, 4, 2.4, 3)
> g1 <- data.frame(YEAR, T_MAR, T_APR, T_MAY, BUD, BUD_SE)
>
> ###PLOT
> dev.new(width=6.5, height=5)
> par (cex=1, family="sans", mar=c(5,5,5,5.5))
> plot(T_MAR~YEAR, type="l", pch=19, ann=F, axes=F, xlim=c(1996,2004),
> ylim=c(0,12), data=g1)
>
> title(ylab="Temperature (°C)",xlab="Year")
> axis(1, at=seq(1996, 2004, 2))
> axis(2, at=c(0,3,6,9,12), las=2)
> par(new=T)
> plot(BUD~YEAR, type="o", ann=F, axes=F, pch=19, ylim=c(60,100),data=g1)
> axis(4, las=2)
> mtext("Bud Break (Julian Day)", side=4, padj=4)
> arrows(g1$YEAR,g1$BUD, g1$YEAR,g1$BUD + g1$BUD_SE, length=0.05, angle=90)
> arrows(g1$YEAR,g1$BUD, g1$YEAR,g1$BUD-g1$BUD_SE, length=0.05, angle=90)
>
>
>
> However, I'd like to draw a multi-panel graph with budbreak on the top (as
> it is), and with the temperatures for March, April, and May on the bottom,
> with their respective legends.
>
> I was wondering if you could help me out with this.
>
> Thanks a million for your help.
>
> --
> Andre
>
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