R help - Feb 2012 - Problem with plotting a square 1 x 3 plot and placement of outer margin text

Dear R-helpers,

Please see the attached plot.

The problem is that I have too much space between the x-axis label
(which is mtext in an outer margin) and the plots.

My par settings for this plot are:
>par(mfrow=c(1,3),oma=c(2,2,2,2),mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1),pty="s")
>#here is the code that produces the three plots, which I have deleted for
simplicity
>mtext("Log Wetland Area",side=1,outer=TRUE)
It works fine (less space between plots and outer margin text)) when I
set pty="m" but then I get very long and skinny rectangular plots. I
would like to keep the square plots.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Many thanks,

Mark

On 07.02.2012 16:03, Mark Na wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
>
> Please see the attached plot.
>
> The problem is that I have too much space between the x-axis label
> (which is mtext in an outer margin) and the plots.
>
> My par settings for this plot are:
>
>>
par(mfrow=c(1,3),oma=c(2,2,2,2),mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1),pty="s")
>> #here is the code that produces the three plots, which I have deleted
for simplicity
>> mtext("Log Wetland Area",side=1,outer=TRUE)
>
> It works fine (less space between plots and outer margin text)) when I
> set pty="m" but then I get very long and skinny rectangular
plots. I
> would like to keep the square plots.
Then you have to size the device in a way that it is roughly 3 times as 
wide as its height?

Uwe
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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