[R] margin between plot region and axes

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Tue Dec 18 00:12:14 CET 2007


On 17/12/2007 4:19 PM, Albert Greinoecker wrote:
> Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 21:22 +0100 schrieb Scionforbai:
>>> My question: is there a way to add axes the usual way (as tried for
> the
>>> first graphic), but to erase the margin, so that the axes start at
> point
>>> (0/0) in my case.
>> Not really sure if this is what you ask, but maybe you should call
>> your first plot() with xaxs="i" and yaxs="i". It reduces the default
>> 4% increase on data range on both axis.
> 
> thanks for your answer and sorry for the weak explanation of the
> problem.
> To put it another way:
> consider the following simple statement:
> hist(rnorm(100))
> how can I influence drawing of the axis so that they lie directly on the
> edges of the bars? The solution on this I think could directly be
> applied to my problem.

That's what he was getting at:

 > par(xaxs="i", yaxs="i")
 > hist(rnorm(100))

Duncan Murdoch



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