[R] Same plot size with mfrow()

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Wed Jul 10 01:33:57 CEST 2013


It is hard to know what to recommend, as you don't give us any context.

If the plots are interrelated in certain ways, lattice and ggplot both
provide conditioning plots.Check vignettes and documentation for these
packages.

For base graphics, ?layout may be what you want.

Cheers,
Bert

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Charlie Brown
<charliethebrown77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to plot similar to the example below.  I want to remove the X and Y
> axis labels to avoid redundancy, but then want to make the spaces between
> plots smaller.  When I do this (see below), I end up with plots of
> different sizes (I want the plots to be exactly the same dimensions).
>  Could someone help me with this multiple plot setup, I'm sure this is way
> too complicated and simpler code will accomplish my goals.  Thanks, Charlie
>
>
> png("example.png", height=1000, width=1500)
>
> par(mfrow=c(2, 2), cex=2, cex.lab=1.5, cex.axis=1.5, cex.main=2, mgp=c(3,
> 1, 0), omi=c(3, 5, 2, 1))
>
> par(mar=c(1, 5, 2, 1)+0.1)
> plot(c(1:100), c(1:100), xaxt="n", ylab="Y-label 1")
>
> par(mar=c(1, 1, 2, 1)+0.1)
> plot(c(1:100), c(1:100), xaxt="n", yaxt="n")
>
> par(mar=c(5, 5, 1, 1)+0.1)
> plot(c(1:100), c(1:100), xlab="X-label", ylab="Y-label 2")
>
> par(mar=c(5, 1, 1, 1)+0.1)
> plot(c(1:100), c(1:100), yaxt="n", xlab="X-label 2")
>
> dev.off()
>
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