I tried this trick, and clearly things are not going in the right direction. It seems 'layout' is at the root of my frustration, so I can make two plots and marge them in adobe illustrator (or something similar).
png("c:/temp/lookat.png",res=120,height=600,width=1200) layout(matrix(c(1,2),2,2,byrow=TRUE),c(1.5,2.5),respect=TRUE) plot(seq(1:10),seq(1:10),type="l",las=1,col="blue") plot(x,y,type="l",las=1,ylim=c(0,12)) subplot(edm.sub(x[seq(1:5)],y[seq(1:5)]),x=4,y=9,size=c(1,1.5)) par(new=T) plot(x,y,las=1,ylim=c(0,12),type="n",ann=F,las=1,col="blue") subplot(edm.sub(x[seq(15,20,by=1)],y[seq(15,20,by=1)]),x=17,y=9,size=c(1,1.5)) dev.off() http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3876285/lookat.png -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/subplot-strange-behavoir-tp3875917p3876285.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.