you can use layout to setup 4 plot areas; 3 for the graphs and then along one on the right for the legend
Sent from my iPad On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:41, Matt Cooper <mattcst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > BG: Will try be brief. I'd like 3 graphs on a page (below each other > mfrow=c(3,1)), saved to pdf. The three plot data on the same subject so I'm > having one legend, to the right of the center graph. I'm using > mar=c(5,15,4,15) to bring the sides in so that the graphs are square and not > stretched wide. To have the graph to the side I'm thinking xpd=T. Each graph > has a number of points and lines overlaid, so plot > ();lines(),lines(),lines() etc. > > The data is somewhat of a subset of a larger set, so I'm limiting what is > being displayed. The lines plot trends of the wider data. > > P: With xpd=T, the lines are going right out of the graph boxes to the outer > limit of the plot boundaries, as would be the intended behaviour of xpd. > Goes without saying that this is undesirable. > > Q: Is there a better way to achieve what I want? At this stage I have xpd=T > in the par(), and xpd=F in the plot() commands and all the line commands, > just so I can get the legend to actually print... > > Aside: Given the way I've done this, the lines() are all clipped RIGHT at > the limit of the plot box. So given the plot is called first these lines > leave little coloured dashes on the black of the plot box. To sort this I've > called box() at the end. This all seems very redundant? > > Thanks > Matt > > > -- > mattcst...@gmail.com > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
