Hello Primoz, with traditional graphics, you may want to use par (?par), options like mar, mai, oma etc. may be interesting for you. And for the relation between y-axis and x-axis, the option asp to function plot (?plot.default) will help.
Regards, Ulrike Primoz PETERLIN-2 wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am sure this is a beginners' problem which is being asked > recurrently every few months, but nevertheless I wasn't able to find > the answer searching through the r-help list. > > So here is my problem: I would like to plot a set of points (y vs. x), > a (linear) regression line through them, and on the second graph > underneath the first one I would want to plot residuals vs. x. I came > up with two solutions, unfortunately neither of them is fully > satisfactory. > > First I tried with what I later learned is called traditional graphics > (file norris.R). Here, the white space margins around the plots are > too wide, meaning that the data in the plot are crammed. Probably I > would be quite happy if I could somehow define a rectangular plotting > area with its height being ~150% of its width, but I cannot prevent R > from offering me a square plotting area. > > Next I tried a lattice package (file norris.lattice.R). Here, the > margins are smaller, but the lower plot does not fit exactly under the > upper one (the x-axes should match). > > Most likely I am not using the correct terminology (if I would have > known it, I could have looked in the help pages myself, thank you :), > but I hope that the attached files make more sense of what I am trying > to do. > > Thanks in advance. > > All the best, > Primoz > > -- > Primož Peterlin, Inštitut za biofiziko, Med. fakulteta, Univerza v > Ljubljani > Lipičeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija. > primoz.peter...@mf.uni-lj.si > Tel +386-1-5437612, fax +386-1-4315127, > http://biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si/~peterlin/ > F8021D69 OpenPGP fingerprint: CB 6F F1 EE D9 67 E0 2F 0B 59 AF 0D 79 56 > 19 0F > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Regression-line-w--residuals---tuning-the-plot-tp25647458p25670483.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.