I've never used an R command without reading the documentation first. I think that would be impractical. I am not an expert at deciphering the documentation though and I post here because I did in fact read the documentation, do extensive google searches, ask friends/collegues and still find no answer. This forum is not a first resort for me. There is a very bad rep of R forums being notoriously harsh on new comers. I myself do not like when people do not try. In order to avoid this harshness (I have not found this forum any more harsh than your everyday educated R user), I do my own research and ask a question when I get stuck. I realize that people still are upset by my ignorance and that is their choice. I will get better and better at R and less and less likely to run into any of these issues. I am not a programmer or statistician by trade, but I am a learner and thus will continue to improve.
You have not offended me at all as few people have this ability. Thank you for your help. Adele -----Original Message----- From: bt_jan...@yahoo.de [mailto:bt_jan...@yahoo.de] Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 04:53 PM To: Thompson, Adele - adele_thomp...@cargill.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space On 05/16/2011 06:18 PM, adele_thomp...@cargill.com wrote: > Re-sizing within the dev command works well. I'm not sure why I would need > the dev.off(). I have the plot commands run. Then I have the dev.copy2pdf > command. > Thanks again for your help. > Well, you really should get into the habit of reading the documentation of each of the commands you use. To get familiar with the concept of graphics in R (and to answer your question regarding def.off()) I would recommend having a look at some basic textbook about R or one of the many tutorials on R available on the web. (googeling "graphics R" gives you a really helpful link with the third entry!) The answer to your question basicly is that you need to tell R that your figure is finished (by running def.off() ). Then R can create the file. Usually figures are created by a sequence of calls so "R" itself can never now whether it would be necessary to add some elements to the plot later or not. Sorry for beeing a bit harsh, but quite often many of the questions here on the list can be easily answered by searching documentation, the web or getting familiar with the basic R concepts! HTH Jannis > -----Original Message----- > From: greg.s...@imail.org [mailto:greg.s...@imail.org] > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 11:11 AM > To: Thompson, Adele - adele_thomp...@cargill.com; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: RE: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space > > If your goal is to end up with a pdf file, then I would suggest creating the > pdf file directly using the pdf function (you can specify height and width in > the function) then run your commands to create the plot and use dev.off() to > finish. > > You often get different results when writing directly to a file vs doing one > of the dev.copy because of some different settings. In general the dev.copy > approach can be a quick and easy solution for a simple graph, but plotting > directly to the file tends to work better if you want a quality graph in the > file. > > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf Of Schatzi > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 8:41 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space > > I am outputting the plot to a pdf file using the code: > dev.copy2pdf(file="testing.pdf") > > The plots are too small though unless I first manually increase the size in > R and then use the dev.copy command. Is there a way to automatically > increase the window size? I tried fin and din, but those do not seem to work > or they only increase the size to a certain degree, even though I can > manually increase it to fill my screen. > > > Schatzi wrote: >> Thanks all for the replies. I am getting better slowly but surely. I >> imagine that I will get better at figuring out things as well so I don't >> have to post as many questions. I do lots of searches, but still cannot >> figure out how to do everything that I need. >> >> The new code is as such: >> par(mfrow=c(4,7), mar=c(2, 2, 2, 1.5), oma=c(1, 1, 4, 0)) >> for (i in 1:28) { >> a<-seq(1,3,1) >> plot(a,a, ann=FALSE, main= "plot of a vs a") >> } >> mtext("Plot of a vs a",side=3,outer=TRUE) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: murdoch.dun...@gmail.com [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 03:25 PM >> To: Thompson, Adele - adele_thomp...@cargill.com >> Cc: greg.s...@imail.org; r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space >> >> On 11-05-13 4:21 PM, adele_thomp...@cargill.com wrote: >>> Easy fix. Under ?par, I don't see where I can enter an overall title. >>> Should I add a text command or something? >> mtext() writes text in the margins; argument "outer" puts it in the >> outer margins. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: greg.s...@imail.org [mailto:greg.s...@imail.org] >>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 03:17 PM >>> To: Thompson, Adele - adele_thomp...@cargill.com; r-help@r-project.org >>> Subject: RE: [R] Plots: I've deleted axes, now to delete space >>> >>> Look at the help for par, specifically the section on 'mar' to set the >>> per plot margins smaller and the section on 'oma' to leave room for the >>> overall title. >>> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > ----- > In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they are not - > Albert Einstein > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Plots-I-ve-deleted-axes-now-to-delete-space-tp3521078p3526379.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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
