Message-ID: <d840f62d-1744-be5d-3eae-ff33ae7a57bd@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-05-05T20:58:15Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: why the length and width of a plot region produced by the dev.new() function cannot be correctly set?
In-Reply-To: <acfbaaa8-9a54-42d7-aefb-53f8da8acb4d.sunyeping@aliyun.com>
On 05/05/2018 11:33 AM, ??? wrote:
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> From:Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> Send Time:2018 May 4 (Fri) 17:24
> To:??? <sunyeping at aliyun.com>; David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
> Cc:R Help Mailing List <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject:Re: [R] why the length and width of a plot region produced by
> the dev.new() function cannot be correctly set?
>
> On?04/05/2018?3:04?AM,?sunyeping?via?R-help?wrote:
> >
> >?------------------------------------------------------------------From:David?Winsemius?<dwinsemius at comcast.net>Send?Time:2018?May?4?(Fri)?13:25To:????<sunyeping at aliyun.com>Cc:R?Help?Mailing?List?<r-help at r-project.org>Subject:Re:?[R]?why?the?length?and?width?of?a?plot?region?produced?by?the?dev.new()?function?cannot?be?correctly?set?
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> >>???On?May?3,?2018,?at?6:28?PM,?sunyeping?via?R-help?<r-help at r-project.org>?wrote:
> >>
> >>???When?I?check?the?size?of?the?plot?region?usingdev.size("in")a?new?plot?region?is?produced?and?in?the?Rconsole?I?get[1]?5.333333?5.322917
> >
> >?Your?test?is?all?mangleed?together.?You?failed?in?your?duty?to?read?the?list?info?and?the?Posting?guide?.?NO?HTML!
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> >>???If?I?mean?to?produce?a?plot?region?with?size?setting?bydev.new(length=3,width=3)a?plot?region?is?produced,?but?the?size?is?[2.281250,?5.322917],?as?detected?by?the?de.size?function.?If?I?type:dev.new(length=10,width=10)I?get?a?plot?region?of?with?the?size?of?[7.614583,?5.322917].?It?seems?that?the?width?of?the?new?plot?region?cannot?be?set,?and?tt?is?always?5.322917.?The?length?of?the?new?plot?region?can?be?set,?but?it?is?always?smaller?that?the?values?I?set.What?do?I?miss??What?is?the?correct?way?of?setting?the?dimension?of?the?new?plot?region??I?will?be?grateful?to?any?help.Best?regards,
> >
> >?The?size?of?the?device?is?not?the?size?of?the?plot?region.?You?need?to?take?into?account?the?margins.?See??par
> >?Thank?you,?David.I?have?read?the?par()?document.?Clearly?the?size?of?the?plot?region?is?smaller?than?or?equal?to?the?divice?size.?However,?if?I?produce?a?graphic?device?with?dev.new?(length,?width)?or?other?functions,?I?find?the?largest??width?of?the?new?device?is?always?5.3?inches?whatever?the?values?I?set,?and?the?length?of?it?is?alway?smaller?than?what?I?set.
>
> The?length?and?width?aren't?the?first?and?second?parameters?for?any
> device,?and?length?isn't?a?parameter?at?all.??Try
>
> dev.new(height?=?10,?width?=?10)
>
> and?you?should?get?a?bigger?device?if?it?will?fit?on?your?screen.??If?it
> won't?fit,?then?you?might?get?a?smaller?one,?and?you'll?need?to?choose?a
> non-screen?device?such?as?png()?or?pdf()?instead?of?the?default?device.
>
> Duncan?Murdoch
>
> ??Could?you?tell?me?how?to?produce?a?graphic?divice?with?correct?size
> that?I?set??I?need?this?function?because?the?graphic?divice?cannot
> accomendate?all?of?the?graph?I?make?with?some?of?plot?tools?such?as
> ggtree.?In?ggtree?plot,?part?of?the?tree?tips?label?are?invisible
> (https://www.dropbox.com/s/87gyusx7ay1xxu8/tree.pdf?dl=0)?even?I?set
> "par(mar=rep(0,4))".?So?I?think?I?must?plot?the?tree?on?a?larger?graphic
> device.??Best?regards.
> >
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> >?David?Winsemius
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> "dev.new(height?=?10,?width?=?10) " doesn't work neither. It produces a
> device with a size of [?5.760417, 5.750000]. My computer is a usual 14
> inch thankpad labtop. Is 5 ~ inches really the up limit of the size of
> the R graphic device in computer screen? I doubt it.
You ask questions in a very rude way. I'm going to let you figure this
one out by yourself.
Duncan Murdoch