overlapping plots

I don't really understand what you want to do, but seems like with the
`grid' package, such things are quite possible.

Andy
From: Carlisle Thacker

How to combine three plots so that they partially overlap?  
As the data 
on all three are near the left side and top, it would be nice to draw 
the first, shift axes down and to the right and draw the second, and 
shift again to draw the third.

I could shift the data for the 2nd and 3rd plots and construct their 
axes by hand, but it would be great if R has an easier way.

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Andy,

If I had the three plots on three separate sheets of paper, I could cut 
out plot 2 and paste it over plot one so that the data and axes on both 
plots can be seen.  Then I could cut out plot 3 and past it over plots 1 
and 2 so that data and axes on all three plots can be seen.  For my 
special case, the x-axes would have to appear at the top of each plot. 
If there are boxes around the plots or guide lines, the parts below 
plots 2 and 3 should be obscured.

Thanks,

Carlisle
I don't really understand what you want to do, but seems like with the
`grid' package, such things are quite possible.

Andy

From: Carlisle Thacker

How to combine three plots so that they partially overlap?  
As the data 
on all three are near the left side and top, it would be nice to draw 
the first, shift axes down and to the right and draw the second, and 
shift again to draw the third.

I could shift the data for the 2nd and 3rd plots and construct their 
axes by hand, but it would be great if R has an easier way.

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Andy,

If I had the three plots on three separate sheets of paper, I could cut
out plot 2 and paste it over plot one so that the data and axes on both
plots can be seen.  Then I could cut out plot 3 and past it over plots 1
and 2 so that data and axes on all three plots can be seen.  For my
special case, the x-axes would have to appear at the top of each plot.
If there are boxes around the plots or guide lines, the parts below
plots 2 and 3 should be obscured.

This is pretty rough, but I think it might be basically what you want.

par(mar=c(6,2,2,6))
plot(rnorm(20),rnorm(20),axes=FALSE,xlab="",ylab="")
axis(2)
axis(3)
par(new=TRUE)
par(mar=c(4,4,4,4))
plot(rnorm(10),type="l",col="green",axes=FALSE,xlab="",ylab="")
axis(2,col="green")
axis(3,col="green")
par(new=TRUE)
par(mar=c(2,6,6,2))
plot(rnorm(12),pch=2,col="red",axes=FALSE,xlab="",ylab="")
axis(2,col="red")
axis(3,col="red")

Jim