[R] 49 histograms on one page

[Liaw, Andy]

You may want to set par(mar, oma) to something small, or start the device
(which one are you using?) with large enough dimension, or both.

Andy

> From: Christian Hennig
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to do something like this:
> 
> par(mfrow=c(7,7))
> for (i in 1:49)
>   hist(RATDACOM[SUBJNO==i],breaks=0.5+(0:6),
>        main="",xlab="",ylab="",xaxt="n",yaxt="n")
> 
> (Don't think about what RATDACOM and SUBJNO are.)
> 
> I get an error 
> Error in plot.new() : Figure margins too large.
> 
> 36 histograms with mfrow=c(6,6) work.
> But the 36 histograms are then so small that I wonder why 49 
> do not fit.
> It seems that though I have 
> main="",xlab="",ylab="",xaxt="n",yaxt="n" the
> area reserved for axes and labels is almost as large as it 
> would be if I
> would print a single histogram. The histogram itself only 
> gets the remaining
> space, which is very small (I could draw 36*4 histograms of 
> this size on a
> single page and the margins between them would still be OK).
> 
> So the question is:
> How do I tell R to print the essential histogram area without 
> main, labs and
> axes large enough that it looks well but small enough that 49 
> fit on one
> page? (If I would draw them by hand, no problem...)
> 
> Best,
> Christian
> 
> 
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