[BioC] OT: question about plots, general R, really...

[James W. MacDonald]

You might also consider using the 'xpd' argument to par().

 > par(xpd = NA)
 > plot(1:10)
 > plot(1:10)
 > plot(1:10)
 > plot(1:10)
 > plot(1:10)
 > plot(1:10)
 > text(-12,28,"A header string")

The only problem with this solution is finding where to put things. An 
alternative is to use

 > text(locator(1), "A header string") and then place it where you want.

HTH,

Jim


Ana Conesa wrote:
> Hi Jose,
> 
> I came across this same problem some time ago and I figured out a quite 
> rudimentary solution, I guess. Probably there are more elgant ones (I would 
> love to know them!!!)
> Basically what I do is:
> - Split my device up into one more row, very narrow, at the upper part, to 
> host the general title, and then set my first figure to spand across this 
> first row. 
> - Then plot a "ghost" plot in which I have made everything not visible but 
> the Title. Normally you have to adjust the margins for this first "plot" in 
> advance.
> - Resest the margins
> - Plot the other plots  
> 
> For example, for a title, plus 4 figures you could use:
> 
>>layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3,4,5),3,2, byrow=T),heights=c(1,6,6))
>>par(mar=c(0.1,0.1,2,0.1))
>>plot(0, main="Your Title", xaxt="n", yaxt="n", xlab="", 
> 
> ylab="",bty="n",col="white") 
> 
>>par(mar=c(c(4, 4, 4, 2)))
>>plot...what ever...
> 
> 
> You have to play a bit with the heights parameter of layout to get the 
> division you are happy with (the function layout.show() shows you the 
> position of each plot in your screen). And play also with the margins, maybe.
> 
> Hope this is of some use to you...
> 
> Ana
> 
> 
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:12:56 +0100, J.delasHeras wrote
> 
>>This is a bit off-topic, as it's purely R, I suppose...
>>
>>I am making figures containing 6 plots (MA plots, in this case), using:
>>
>>par(mfrow=c(2,3))
>>
>>now, I would like to add a title, for instance, to the whole figure, 
>>not to the individual plots... how does one do that? I can only seem 
>>to add text, title etc to each plot...
>>
>>thanks for any pointers!
>>
>>Jose
>>
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