R help - Feb 2000 - par: mar and mgp dead?

Bill Simpson <wsi at gcal.ac.uk> writes:
> I just installed 99.0a, and I can't set mar and mgp:
> 
> > par(mar(2,2,.1,.1))
> Error in par(mar(2, 2, .1, .1)) : couldn't find function
"mar"
try mar=c(2,2,.1,.1)
> I had the same happen with mgp.
I'll believe that

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I just installed 99.0a, and I can't set mar and mgp:
> par(mar(2,2,.1,.1))
Error in par(mar(2, 2, .1, .1)) : couldn't find function "mar"

I had the same happen with mgp.
Are these bugs or a problem in my installation (everything else seems
OK)?

Is R core going to kill mar and mgp? If so, how should I fix the
huge margins and huge space between axis title and axis? Try this to see
what I mean:

 x11(width=6, height=6,pointsize=21)
 x<-seq(1,10)
 y<-x+rnorm(10)
 plot(x,y)
dev.print(horizontal=FALSE,width=6,height=6,pointsize=21,
file="junk.ps")

(Maybe this looks OK to you, but to me a huge fraction of the figure is
wasted space that should be devoted to the actual plot)

pointsize is acting like cex, scaling up the margins and axis title
spacing.

Bill Simpson

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