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I would like to put three figures next to each other in a figure. I have been reading the introduction to R, section 12 several times now, and I still can't make heads or tails out of it. Lets say that I have three dataframes a, b, c, and I want to plot a$V1, b$V1 and c$V1 in separate plots simply using plot(), how do I put them next to each other? I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but I cannot

...gt; plot(x,y) > par(fig=c(2/3,1,0,1)) > qqnorm(x) However using both the X11 and postscript devices, it doesn't work. In X11(), the plot first appears on the left, then disappears after the call to qqnorm. In postscript device, the two plots are on separate pages. Often I need to make multifigures where e.g. the two stacked on top of each other have the same x variable and have the same axes to facilitate comparison. I am finding it a problem to get rid of the numerical labels and the text label at the bottom of the top plot (which are unnecessary and bad form) and without a large empty ga...