Drawing multiple plots on one page for publication.
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Zach Hu wrote:
I have been using R for a while but only recently tried to draw quality plots for publications. I spent a few days tried to figure out how to draw multiple plots on a single page to a postscript or pdf file but not successful. The drawing is perfect OK if it is displayed on the screen using x11() device. E.g. x11() par(mfrow=c(2,2)) par(mai=c(0.5,0.3, 0.6, 0.4)) plot(x, y, ..........) plot(x, z ...........) plot(z, y,...........) plot(z+x, x-y, .....) Four plots displayed on the screen when X-Win32 was set up. Please advice how can I save this to a postscript or PDF file or any kind of file for publication and powerpoint slide?
Just replace `x11()' by `postscript()' or `pdf()': you may want to set the width, height and pointsize suitably. [You can use dev.copy2eps to copy the screen, but for publication-quality plots should should replot on the desired end device to use the correct font metrics.]
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