Hi, consider the following example: I have a matrix like this: spp.mds$points [,1] [,2] CLAP0 1.79703164 -11.66716182 CLAP30 3.87034797 -7.48168377 YBI0000 10.27538316 -3.32226184 YBI0100 0.58463806 -1.25748701 hir10000 5.82907036 -4.09695960 hir10016 -2.22113472 -4.86563557 gyn30000 5.14643671 -3.58706541 gyn30032 2.99552434 -6.21815132 ... Each pair of rows represents a single sample (now and past say). I want to draw the rowname for the past sample (row 2 of a pair) and an arrow from the past sample pointing to the now sample (row 1 of a pair). These are the coords of each point on axis 1 and 2 of an nmds. Because there are so many pairs (52) the plot is crowded so I subset the points, choosing which I want to plot on each sub-plot by hand to make the plot less crowded: rows <- list(c(1,3,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,25,35,37,43,97,99,93), c(5,27,29,31,33,45,47,49,51,53,39,71), c(55,57,59,61,63,65,67,69,73,75,77,79,41), c(23,81,83,85,87,89,91,95,101,103)) listing the row 1 of each pair, so for I can do: tops <- rows[[1]] bottoms <- rows[[1]] + 1 plot(spp.mds, type = "n", display = "site", ann = FALSE, axes = FALSE) axis(side = 2, at = c(10, 5, 0, -5, -10)) box() text(spp.mds$points[bottoms,], labels = rep(sacs.code, each = 2)[bottoms], cex = 0.5) arrows(spp.mds$points[bottoms, 1], spp.mds$points[bottoms, 2], spp.mds$points[tops, 1], spp.mds$points[tops, 2], col = "blue", length = 0.03) for plot 1, and so on for the other subsets. I was plotting using par(mfrow = c(2,2)), and so I have 4 plots separated by lots of space. I want to get rid of all that space between plots, turning off axis labels and axes for the internal axes. I know how to do all of this except how to remove all the internal space whilst keeping each plot the same size and shape. Simply setting two of the mar (gin)s to be 0 for the internal margins for each plot is almost what I want, but the plots come out slightly different sizes. I'm sure there is something simple I'm missing, but I've tried various combinations of split.screen(), layout(), changing oma, mar but I still can't quite get this right. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Gav -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%