Thank you. Sent from my iPad
On 04/06/2012, at 7:12 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks. The solution i have been persuing is reading Murrell - and >> trying to figure out grid / Viewport commands. Is it best to stay in >> the base graphics package if possible? > > It really depends on what you need to do. Your original example used > plot, so I went with par. > > Murrell's explanation of par() options is also very good. > > Sarah > >> On 04/06/2012, at 6:20 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Johnson <mcoog...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Thanks. So i can call par after the layout command? I did not realise. >>> >>> Some par options are set by calling par() directly, while others must >>> be included in the plot command itself. >>> >>> Sarah >>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> On 03/06/2012, at 9:42 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, June 3, 2012, Matthew Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Sir, >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm no sir, but you need to spend some quality time reading ?par to lean >>>> abot axes and margins. >>>> >>>> Sarah >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I would like to create a combined line-bar plot, with the line up top and >>>>> bar plot below, but with the x-axes suppressed on the topmost plot, the >>>>> line and bar plot areas joined by a common line, and the x-axes (of dates) >>>>> joined to the bottom part of the bar plot. >>>>> >>>>> i have been able to format the area using the layout(matrix( ... commands, >>>>> but cannot figure out the final step. >>>>> >>>>> here's the code so far: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> layout(matrix(c(1,2), 2, 1, byrow=TRUE), widths=c(3,3), heights=c(2,1)) >>>>> plot(saDwlPx[,1]) >>>>> barplot(saDwlMoM[,1]) >>>>> >>>>> thanks + best regards >>>>> >>>>> matt johnson >>>>> >>>> > -- > Sarah Goslee > http://www.sarahgoslee.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.
