[R] fine control of plots after use of layout(matrix ...

Matthew Johnson mcooganj at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 23:02:22 CEST 2012


Thanks. The solution i have been persuing is reading Murrell - and
trying to figure out grid / Viewport commands. Is it best to stay in
the base graphics package if possible?

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On 04/06/2012, at 6:20 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Johnson <mcooganj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. So i can call par after the layout command? I did not realise.
>
> Some par options are set by calling par() directly, while others must
> be included in the plot command itself.
>
> Sarah
>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On 03/06/2012, at 9:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, June 3, 2012, Matthew Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> Sir,
>>
>>
>> I'm no sir, but you need to spend some quality time reading ?par to lean
>> abot axes and margins.
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>>
>>> I would like to create a combined line-bar plot, with the line up top and
>>> bar plot below, but with the x-axes suppressed on the topmost plot, the
>>> line and bar plot areas joined by a common line, and the x-axes (of dates)
>>> joined to the bottom part of the bar plot.
>>>
>>> i have been able to format the area using the layout(matrix( ... commands,
>>> but cannot figure out the final step.
>>>
>>> here's the code so far:
>>>
>>>
>>> layout(matrix(c(1,2), 2, 1, byrow=TRUE), widths=c(3,3), heights=c(2,1))
>>> plot(saDwlPx[,1])
>>> barplot(saDwlMoM[,1])
>>>
>>> thanks + best regards
>>>
>>> matt johnson
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Sarah Goslee
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>
>
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
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