[R] Help with the plot function

[Bert Gunter]

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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