[R] layout question

[Emmanuel Paradis]

At 12:55 18/09/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I wanted to produce a layout like this:
>
>      |----------|
>      |          |
>      |    1     | 
>      |          |
>|-----------------------|
>|           |           |  
>|     2     |    3      |   
>|           |           |  
>|-----------------------|
>Three equal sized plots with the top one centred about the other two.
>
>So far I am using
>nf<-layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3), 2, 2, byrow=TRUE),respect=TRUE)
>which produces a layout like this:
>
>|-----------------------|
>|                       |
>|          1            |
>|                       |
>|-----------------------|
>|           |           |
>|     2     |    3      |
>|           |           |
>|-----------------------|
>
>The top plot is stretched horizontally.
>
>Is there a way to get what I want with layout or by some other means?
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Bill
>

Hi,

You can play with the mar graphical parameter. For instance,

 layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3), 2, 2, byrow=TRUE),respect=TRUE)
 par(mar=c(5.1, 12.1, 1.4, 10.1))
 plot(rnorm(10))
 par(mar=c(5.1, 4.1, 1.4, 2.1))
 plot(rnorm(10))
 plot(rnorm(10))

makes three plots roughly similar in size.

Emmanuel Paradis
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