I am trying to set the margins of a plot with mai and I get a strange output. I write: plot(rnorm(1000),type="l",mai=c(1,1,1,1)) and what I get is a plot with unchanged margins and a column of four 1 plotted on the top margin. Marco Taboga (mtaboga at tiscalinet.it) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20010502/00d0e5dd/attachment.html
Troubles with plot margins
3 messages · Marco Taboga, Uwe Ligges, Brian Ripley
Marco Taboga wrote: I am trying to set the margins of a plot with mai and I get a strange output. I write: plot(rnorm(1000),type="l",mai=c(1,1,1,1)) and what I get is a plot with unchanged margins and a column of four 1 plotted on the top margin.
In plot(..., mai = ...) , R thinks mai is short for "main" and sets c(1, 1, 1, 1) as the main title. What you should try: par(mai = rep(1, 4)) plot(...) Uwe -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Marco Taboga wrote:
I am trying to set the margins of a plot with mai and I get a strange output. I write: plot(rnorm(1000),type="l",mai=c(1,1,1,1)) and what I get is a plot with unchanged margins and a column of four 1 plotted on the top margin.
mai matches main, which is an argument to plot.default. It can't be set in plot, anyway.
plot(rnorm(1000),type="l",mai=c(1,1,1,1), main=NULL)
Warning messages: 1: parameter "mai" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function 2: parameter "mai" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function ... Use par(mai=c(1,1,1,1)) plot(rnorm(1000))
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