[R] How to get xlim & ylim afterwards...

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, HENRIK Bengtsson wrote:

> After plotting how can you get the x and y limits of the plot? I would
> like to do something like:
> 
>   plot(x);
>   plot.area <- plot.get.area();
>   xlim <- plot.area$xlim;
>   ylim <- plot.area$xlim;
> 
> Is there a "plot.get.area()" method? I need it to place my legends.

par("usr")
returns a vector with the upper and low ylim and upper and lower xlim on
the current device.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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