Thank you, that worked good. I tried to read the help for layout/split.screen but I found it confusing. On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 5:51 PM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Incidentally, here is another way to do what (I think) you asked using > layout(): > > m <- matrix(c(1,2,2), nrow =1) > layout(m) > plot(1:10, type = "p",main = "The First Plot") > plot(10:1, type = "l", main ="The Second Plot") > > On my device, the plots use different size fonts, point sizes, etc. and so > aesthetically differ. I do not know why and am too lazy to delve into the > code. > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and > sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 8:39 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ?layout >> Please read the Help file **carefully** and work through the **examples**. I >> cannot explain better than they. >> Here is code using layout() that I think does what you want: >> >> m <- matrix(1:2, nrow =1) >> layout(m, widths = c(1,2)) >> plot(1:10, type = "p",main = "The First Plot") >> plot(10:1, type = "l", main ="The Second Plot") >> >> Note that both the lattice package and ggplot2 can also do this sort of >> thing much more flexibly(and therefore requiring more effort to learn). >> >> Cheers, >> Bert >> >> >> Bert Gunter >> >> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and >> sticking things into it." >> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:19 AM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> I would like to draw two plots in the same device so that there is a >>> single row and two columns, with the first column being 1/3 of the >>> device's width. >>> I am creating a PNG object with width = 30 and height = 20 cm. >>> I know that I should use split.screen or layout but I am lost with the >>> matrix to pass to the functions. >>> For istance, I tried: >>> # distance in arbitrary units (so let's say cm) from of corners >>> # left, right, bottom, and top counting from bottom left corner >>> # that is first panel has the bottom right corner 20 cm from the bottom >>> left? >>> > m = matrix(c(0,20,40,0, 20,60,40,0), byrow=T, ncol=4) >>> > m >>> [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] >>> [1,] 0 20 40 0 >>> [2,] 20 60 40 0 >>> > split.screen(m) >>> Error in par(split.screens[[cur.screen]]) : >>> invalid value specified for graphical parameter "fig" >>> > m[1,] >>> [1] 0 20 40 0 >>> > split.screen(m[1,]) >>> Error in split.screen(m[1, ]) : 'figs' must specify at least one screen >>> >>> What should be the syntax for this task? >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Luigi >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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