Here is a response to almost exactly the same question from a couple of weeks ago:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp08/2009-April/196967.html -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Andre Nathan > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:12 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Multiple plot margins > > Hello > > I'm plotting 6 graphs using "mfrow = c(2, 3)". In these plots, only > graphs in the first column have titles for the y axis, and only the > ones > in the last row have titles for the x axis. > > I'd like all plots to be of the same size, and I'm trying to keep them > as near each other as possible, but I'm having the following problem. > > If I make a single call to par(mar = ...), to leave room on the left > and > bottom for the axes titles, a lot of space will be wasted because not > all graphs need titles; however, if I make one call of par(mar = ...) > per plot, to have finer control of the margins, the first column and > last row plots will be smaller than the rest, because the titles use up > some of their space. > > I thought that setting large enough values for "oma" would do what I > want, but it doesn't appear to work if "mar" is too small. > > To illustrate better what I'm trying to do: > > l +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > a | | | | | | > b | | | | | | > e | | | | | | > l +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > > l +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > a | | | | | | > b | | | | | | > e | | | | | | > l +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ > label label label > > where the margins between each plot should be narrow. > > Should I just plot the graphs without axis titles and then use text() > to > manually position them? > > Thanks in advance, > Andre > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
