[R] title problem

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 18:57:49 CET 2009


Try the line= argument on title()

opar <- par(oma = 4 * c(1, 1, 1, 1), no.readonly = TRUE)
par(mfrow = 1:2)
plot(1:3, 9:7)
plot(1:3, 7:9)
for(i in 1:3) title(main = i, line = i, outer = TRUE)
par(opar)


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Gary. No I want one subtitle for all plots below the main title. subtitle should work but if doesn't at the worst case I could do as follows:
>
> title(main = "Main title\nSub title",outer = TRUE, cex.main=1.5,...)
>
> --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Gary <mail2garymiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Gary <mail2garymiller at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [R] title problem
>> To: "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> Cc: "carol white" <wht_crl at yahoo.com>, "r-help list" <r-help at r-project.org>
>> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 9:39 AM
>> You are right David/Carol. It seems outer=T
>> does not work for "Sub title". I'm not sure
>> what Carol is looking for, but in case you need separate sub
>> titles for each graph, then you may want to use more than
>> one title statement. Like:
>>
>>
>> par(oma=c(2,2,2,2))par(mfrow =
>> c(1,2))plot(c(1,2,3),
>> c(9,8,7))title(sub ="sub title 1",
>> cex.sub = 0.75)plot(c(1,2,3),
>> c(9,8,7))title(sub ="sub title 2",
>> cex.sub = 0.75)
>>
>> title(main = "Main title",
>> cex.main=1.5, outer = TRUE)
>> Not sure about how to do it for a single
>> "sub title" for whole graph.
>> Anyone?~Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM,
>> David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Gary wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Carol,
>>
>>
>>
>> Try this
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> par(oma=c(2,2,2,2))
>>
>> par(mfrow = c(1,2))
>>
>> plot(c(1,2,3), c(9,8,7))
>>
>> plot(c(1,2,3), c(9,8,7))
>>
>> title(main = "Main title", sub ="Sub
>> title",outer = TRUE, cex.main=1.5,
>>
>>
>> cex.sub = 1.5)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm curious about what you are seeing with that
>> sequence. On a Mac running R 2.10.0 I am not seeing the
>> subtitle.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> par(oma=c(2,2,2,2)) -- can be used to define outline of the
>> plot. Arguments
>>
>> here are for "bottom", "left",
>> "top", "right"; which ofcourse can be
>> changed
>>
>> according to need. HTH
>>
>>
>>
>> ~Gary
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:21 AM, carol white <wht_crl at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got problem in using title function to create a title for
>> multiple plots
>>
>> presented together by par. As can be seen in the attached
>> file, the title is
>>
>> displayed truncated and the subtitle doesn't get
>> displayed. Here is the
>>
>> code:
>>
>>
>>
>> par(mfrow = c(1,2))
>>
>> plot(c(1,2,3), c(9,8,7))
>>
>> plot(c(1,2,3), c(9,8,7))
>>
>> title(main = "Main title", sub ="Sub
>> title",outer = TRUE, cex.main=1.5,
>>
>> cex.sub = 1.5)
>>
>>
>>
>> Carol
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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