[R] How to add a top level title to multiple plots

Phil Spector spector at stat.berkeley.edu
Sat Nov 21 00:15:48 CET 2009


Jason -
    I've found the mult.fig.p function in the cwhmisc package
to be very handy for this sort of thing.

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu


On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Jason Rupert wrote:

> How can I add an overall plot title to these four plots?
>
> I would like to have something that says, "Distribution Comparisons":
>
>
> par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
> # Plot 1
> plot(rnorm(10),type="l",col="red")
> title(main = list(paste("Normal"),
>                           col="black", cex = 1.0))
>
>
> # Plot 2
> plot(rpois(10, 4),type="l",col="blue")
> title(main = list(paste("Poison"),
>                           col="black", cex = 1.0))
>
>
> # Plot 3
> plot(rnbinom(10, mu = 4, size = 100),type="l",col="green")
> title(main = list(paste("Binomial"),
>                           col="black", cex = 1.0))
>
> # Plot 4
> plot(runif(10),type="l",col="black")
> title(main = list(paste("Uniform"),
>                           col="black", cex = 1.0))
>
>
> Thanks again for any feedback and insights.
>
>
>
>
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