Dear R-helpers, i want to draw a small plot (histogram) within a larger plot (simple scatterplot), so that the axes of the bigger plot remain intact. I know how to use layout() and par(mfrow...) and such, but I want the smaller graph to be *inside* the bigger plot. Is this possible? thanks, Remko
small plot inside a big plot
3 messages · Remko Duursma, Roger D. Peng, Uwe Ligges
For a histogram, you might use `add = TRUE' in the call to hist(). -roger
Remko Duursma wrote:
Dear R-helpers, i want to draw a small plot (histogram) within a larger plot (simple scatterplot), so that the axes of the bigger plot remain intact. I know how to use layout() and par(mfrow...) and such, but I want the smaller graph to be *inside* the bigger plot. Is this possible? thanks, Remko
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Remko Duursma wrote:
Dear R-helpers, i want to draw a small plot (histogram) within a larger plot (simple scatterplot), so that the axes of the bigger plot remain intact. I know how to use layout() and par(mfrow...) and such, but I want the smaller graph to be *inside* the bigger plot. Is this possible? thanks, Remko
You might want to play with the argument "plt" in par(), see ?par for
details. Example:
plot(1:10)
par("plt" = c(0.6, 0.9, 0.3, 0.5))
par(new = TRUE)
hist(rnorm(10))
layout() might also help, if your "small" plot is somewhere within a
grid:
plot(1:10)
layout(matrix(c(0,0,0,1), ncol=2))
par(new = TRUE, oma = par("mar"))
hist(rnorm(10))
Or look into package "grid" for more sophisticated but (from my point of
view) less easy solutions.
Uwe Ligges