[R] need help with pdf-plot

[Ivar Herfindal]

Dear Antje

I cannot see that you have got any replies yet, so I will make and 
attempt. However, I am sure other have more formally correct solutions.

When you call the pdf(), you can set paper="a4" (or "a4r" for 
landscape). However, the width and the height of your plot should then 
not exceed the size of the paper (which is approximately 8.27*11.69 
inches for "a4"). Try (I have only tested on windows XP, R 2.5.0):

pdf("test1.pdf", width=10, heigh=5, paper="a4r")
par(mfrow=c(1,3), pty="s") #pty="s" gives square plotting regions
plot(rnorm(100))
plot(rnorm(100))
plot(rnorm(100))
dev.off()

Hope this helps

Ivar


Antje skrev:
> I still have this problem. Does anybody know any solution?
>
> Antje
>
> Antje schrieb:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to plot a set of barplots like a matrix (2 rows, 10 columns 
>> from"reduced_mat") to a pdf. It works with the following parameters:
>>
>> pdf("test.pdf",width=ncol(reduced_mat)*2, height=nrow(reduced_mat)*2, pointsize 
>> = 12)
>>
>> par(mfcol = c(nrow(reduced_mat),ncol(reduced_mat)), oma = c(0,0,0,0), 
>> lwd=48/96, cex.axis = 0.5, las = 2, cex.main = 1.0)
>>
>> The I get a long narrow page format with the quadratic barplots.
>>
>> But I would like to have a A4 format in the end and the plots not filling the 
>> whole page (they should stay somehow quadratic and not be stretched...).
>>
>> What shall I look for to achieve this?
>>
>> Antje
>>
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