R help - Nov 2005 - Graphics question on putting axes in the margins

Hello

I am writing an article demonstrating how quantile plots work.  In one
figure, I generate 3 sets of normal data, and add different sorts of
outliers to each.  I then make 9 qqnorm plots, in a 3x3 array:

                   Outlier1   Outler2     Outlier3
Dataset1
Dataset2 
Dataset3


which I did using mfrow = c(3,3).

I'd like to use the space on the page as efficiently as possible,so I
made the margins small, but that leaves no space for axes.  Is there a
way to put axes only along the bottom and left side, so that a) The
individual qqplots maintain their shape and b) less space on the page is
taken up by white space?

I tried doing this with layout, but couldn't figure out how to do it
(although I looked extensively at Paul Murrell's excellent book on R
graphics)

TIA

Peter

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Peter Flom wrote:
> which I did using mfrow = c(3,3).
>
> I'd like to use the space on the page as efficiently as possible,so I
> made the margins small, but that leaves no space for axes.  Is there a
> way to put axes only along the bottom and left side, so that a) The
> individual qqplots maintain their shape and b) less space on the page is
> taken up by white space?
Take a look at the code for plot.ts(..., plot.type="multiple").
It uses plot(..., axes=F), followed by calls to box() and axis().