[R] Fine control of plot

[philippe massicotte]

xpd=TRUE might works well.

I'll give it a try.

Thank you for your assistance,
Phil
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> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:07:05 -0400
> Subject: Re: [R] Fine control of plot
> From: sarah.goslee at gmail.com
> To: pmassicotte at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>
> Okay, so what you really want to do is be able to set a wide right
> margin and draw some segments there? Using layout() is not the best
> way to go about this: as you've discovered, you can't control the area
> assigned.
>
> You can "cheat" with layout(), as in:
> layout(matrix(c(1,1,1,2), nrow=1))
>
> but the better way is to see xpd within ?par as described here:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-July/206311.html
>
> along with par()$mai to set the margins appropriately.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM, philippe massicotte
> <pmassicotte at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi and thank you for your answer.
> >
> > Sorry for the html post, here's the code: (you missed a break line between +x and plot(...)
> >
> > layout(matrix(c(1,2), 1, 2, byrow = TRUE), widths=c(6,2), heights=c(1,1))
> >
> > x = 1:100
> > y = rnorm(x)+x
> > plot(x,y)
> >
> > reg = lm(y~x)
> > abline(reg, col = "red")
> >
> > plot(1, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="", xlim = c(-1,1), ylim = c(min(y), max(x)))
> > segments(-0.25,min(reg$fitted.values),0.25,min(reg$fitted.values))
> > segments(-0.25,max(reg$fitted.values),0.25,max(reg$fitted.values))
> > segments(0,min(reg$fitted.values),0,max(reg$fitted.values))
> >
> > I hope my question is more obvious after you urn this example.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:33:40 -0400
> >> Subject: Re: [R] Fine control of plot
> >> From: sarah.goslee at gmail.com
> >> To: pmassicotte at hotmail.com
> >> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> You posted in HTML by mistake, so your code was mangled:
> >>
> >> > I'm trying to create a graph where I could plot some lines on the right side. Here an example:
> >> > layout(matrix(c(1,2), 1, 2, byrow = TRUE), widths=c(6,2), heights=c(1,1))
> >> > x = 1:100y = rnorm(x)+xplot(x,y)
> >> > reg = lm(y~x)abline(reg, col = "red")
> >> > plot(1, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="", xlim = c(-1,1), ylim = c(min(y), max(x)))segments(-0.25,min(reg$fitted.values),0.25,min(reg$fitted.values))segments(-0.25,max(reg$fitted.values),0.25,max(reg$fitted.values))segments(0,min(reg$fitted.values),0,max(reg$fitted.values))
> >>
> >> I figured out where the linebreaks go, but I can't run this:
> >>
> >> y = rnorm(x)+xplot(x,y)
> >>
> >> What's xplot() doing here?
> >>
> >> > However, I cant figure out how to make it a bit nicer by removing extra space to the right.
> >>
> >> Can you explain further what you're trying to do? Plot spacing is
> >> controlled with par() for base graphics, but I really don't understand
> >> what you're after.
>
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee
> http://www.functionaldiversity.org