[R] postscript/eps label clipping

Mulholland, Tom
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:38:18 -0000

Never having used postscript as an output method I looked to see what
you were talking about. I  noted that "ps.options needs to be called
before calling postscript". ps.options does have pointsize within it and
silly though it may seem, its what I would do next.
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-----Original Message-----
From: drf5n at mug.sys.virginia.edu [mailto:drf5n at mug.sys.virginia.edu]
Sent: Friday, 11 July 2003 1:17 PM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] postscript/eps label clipping


The following code produces an eps file with the tops of each of the
ylabs clipped off.

par(mfrow=c(2,2))
  plot(runif(10),
     ylab="Function(Lengthy Expression)",xlab="Prediction")
  plot(runif(10),
     ylab=expression(Delta * Beta^2),xlab="Prediction")
  plot(runif(10),
     ylab="Function(Lengthy Expression)",xlab="Prediction")
  plot(runif(10),
     ylab=expression(Delta * Beta^2),xlab="Prediction")
dev.print(postscript,file="foo.eps",
  horizontal=FALSE,onefile=FALSE,paper="special",
  pointsize=7, width=5,height=4)

?postscript seems to indicate paper="special", width=, height=, and
pointsize= are the recommended way to produce nice latex graphics.

If I don't set a pointsize, the letters aren't clipped, but the graphs
are tiny with respect to the x/y labels.  Is there something else I
should be adjusting instead?

Thanks for your time,
Dave
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