Tom,
The sub argument will always put text at the bottom -- this is all plotting in
R not just image.plot
If you want two lines in the title just build in a new line:
z<- outer( 1:15, 1:10,"+")
image.plot( z, main="the title \n the subtitle")
Best,
Doug
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Doug Nychka,
Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
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On May 1, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Tom Roche wrote:
>
> summary: how to make image.plot print a subtitle between the title and
> the image, rather than under the image?
>
> details:
>
> I've got a project
>
> https://github.com/TomRoche/ioapi-hack-R
>
> that illustrates the use of (et al) the R packages {ncdf4, fields, M3}
> for processing and visualizing IOAPI data. The data being visualized
> consists of a series of layers (mostly representing emissions from a
> particular tuple of agricultural {cultivar, cultivation technique})
> over a surface (in the upper midwest US). I'm currently plotting
>
> https://github.com/downloads/TomRoche/ioapi-hack-R/compare.DN2.layers.pdf
>
> each layer, and including some information about the layer in a title
> and subtitle. The title is where I want it--above the image--but the
> subtitle is printing below the image; I'd prefer it between the title
> and the image. Can this be done? FWIW, the code that plots (in
>
> https://github.com/TomRoche/ioapi-hack-R/blob/master/plotLayersForTimestep.r
>
> ) is like
>
> if (data to plot is not all NA) {
># determine quantiles, then
>image.plot(plot.list, xlab="", ylab="", axes=F, col=colors(100),
> axis.args=list(at=quantiles, labels=quantiles.formatted),
> main=title, sub=subtitle)
>lines(map)
> } else {
>plot(0, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="",
> xlim=range(x.centers), ylim=range(y.centers),
> main=title, sub=subtitle)
>lines(map)
> } # end testing data
>
> TIA, Tom Roche
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