R help - Aug 2008 - creating overall title for plots made with par(mfrow=c(2,2))

I'm making some plots on the same page and would like to include an overall
title instead of individual main titles as they are similar and their x and
y axis labels are sufficient to distinguish them.

Is there a way to assign an overall "main" to this page of plots?

Mark

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on 08/05/2008 06:05 PM Mark Kimpel wrote:
> I'm making some plots on the same page and would like to include an
overall
> title instead of individual main titles as they are similar and their x and
> y axis labels are sufficient to distinguish them.
> 
> Is there a way to assign an overall "main" to this page of plots?
> 
> Mark
Mark,

Hate to do this, but see this post from Prof. Ripley from earlier today:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-August/169974.html

:-)

Regards,

Marc Schwartz

Dear Mark,

I asked a similar question, yesterday.  The answer is:

par(mfrow=c(1,2),oma=c(0,0,2,0))
plot(x)
plot(x)
title("My Title", outer=TRUE)

You need to set up a margin for the title and set the title to outer.   
I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Art

On Aug 5, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:
> I'm making some plots on the same page and would like to include an  
> overall
> title instead of individual main titles as they are similar and  
> their x and
> y axis labels are sufficient to distinguish them.
>
> Is there a way to assign an overall "main" to this page of plots?
>
> Mark
>
> -- 
> Mark W. Kimpel MD ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
> Indiana University School of Medicine
>
> 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN 46074
>
> (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail
> (317) 663-0513 Home (no voice mail please)
>
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