See ?pdf and its width and height arguments.
Also if you want to have the graph centered on a standard page, there are
additional arguments to help you achieve that effect:
> pdf("test.pdf", height=5, width=5, paper="letter", pagecentre=TRUE)
> hist(rcauchy(100))
> dev.off()
-Christos
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> Subject: [R] set size of a plot
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>
> Hi,
> I have the following R-code:
>
> pdf(file="test.pdf")
> hist(rcauchy(100))
> dev.off()
>
> How can I set the size of the histogram in my pdf?
> I tried to do with par(...) but I didn't find the right parameter yet.
>
> Thanks, Max
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