similar to: par(mgp) - unexpected behaviour (PR#6046)

Full_Name: Nicholas Boers Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows XP Home Edition, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Submission from: (NULL) (24.68.84.10) mgp[2] specifies the axis labels' margin line relative to that of the axis line (mgp[3]). The `par' help does not document this behaviour. The following code demonstrates my observation: plot.new(); par(mgp = c(3, 2, 1)); box(); title(xlab =

I just installed 99.0a, and I can't set mar and mgp: > par(mar(2,2,.1,.1)) Error in par(mar(2, 2, .1, .1)) : couldn't find function "mar" I had the same happen with mgp. Are these bugs or a problem in my installation (everything else seems OK)? Is R core going to kill mar and mgp? If so, how should I fix the huge margins and huge space between axis title and axis? Try this

Thanks to Brian Ripley I have been using R utilities for some time for converting S-Plus UNIX nroff help files to .Rd to .html files. .Rd files seem to be the most natural format for help files and this format is probably easier to maintain than nroff, so I would like to start using .Rd files as my master documentation format if anyone has a utility for going from .Rd to nroff. I guess I could

Full_Name: Cornell Gonschior Version: 2.10.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (212.201.28.40) Hi, in the introduction to R, you can find the following sentence in the par() chapter: "Use tck=0.01 and mgp=c(1,-1.5,0) for internal tick marks." I thought that's nice, because I wanted to have tick marks and tick labels inside and the axis title outside. But: > plot(z, las=1,

It seems that when an argument 'mgp' is supplied to axis(), the mgp[2] value (position of tick mark labels) is honoured but the mgp[3] value (position of axis line) is ignored. Example: plot(1:5, xaxt='n', ann=FALSE) par(mgp=c(0,2,1)) axis(1, at=2:4, mgp=c(0,-2,-3)) Axis line is plotted at margin line 1, tick mark labels at line -3. Is this a bug? J. R. M. Hosking

I have long axis labels (8units) on the x axis and 2 unit number labels on the y axis. I need to move the x axis title without moving the y axis title. I have used mgp=c(title, label and line), but mgp moves both the x and y titles. The following puts the y axis title way way out to the left. Anyone know how to move just the x axis. X11() conif<-c("Control", "Switched

Hi, I'm trying to produce 6 graphs on a single page using code I've borrowed from an example by Paul Murrell: (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/custombase-xmastree.R). It involves placing 6 horizontal barplots on one page and adding common labels. The problem is the first graph in my figure (the one in the (1,1) position) is smaller than the other 5. A toy example is

Dear R-wizards! I want to move the axis label of the y-axis a little bit more apart from the border of the plot (otherwise, it would overlap with my horizontal numbering). 'par(mgp(3.5, 1, 0))' does it properly. Unfortunately, it also moves the x-axis label which does not look good. Is there a way to specify 'mgp' for each axis separately or is there another way to move just

Hi all, I consider myself a somewhat experienced user of R, but have struggled with this for a while now. to the point where I just end up pulling the entire graph together in powerpoint and fixing it up from there. How does one adjust the horizontal/vertical positions of axis titles? I've tried using mgp in the par function, but that never produces anything satisfactory as x and y-axes are

Dear all, I'm trying to produce 2 png files, one consisting of an image plot and a color-table (also an image plot) and the other one consisting of 4 image plots and a color table. I'd like the color table to be exactly the same. The way I proceded is the following: for one plot and the color-table png(file = png.file, width = 650, height = 800, pointsize = 16) layout(matrix(c(1, 2),

I'm working on my 'oce' package, trying split.screen() instead of par(mfrow). My code is too long to post, and I hope it's ok that I ask this question without doing so. My code seems to work fine when I source() it, but when I do "R CMD check" on my package, I get the error that I've put as the subject line, when it runs examples. If I comment out the plot()

Hi, How can I make the distance between an axis-label and the axis bigger? I haven't found anything in par()...

Hello, I am trying to use mgp.axis labels to locate the x-xis at a different distance from the one specified for the y-axis. I know I could use other functions such as mtext or axis. But I am curious to know about how to use 'mgp'axis.labels' from the Hmisc package. I tried following the example in the documentation without success. Sample code: x<-1:10 y<-1:10

Hello R-help, I'm trying to make a fairly simple plot axis that goes something like this: plot(-10:10,-10:10, yaxt='n') axis(side=2, las=1, hadj=1, tck=-.01, cex.axis=.6) ...but as you can see, the labels are not close enough to the y-axis (where I want them... to save space for publication). Can anybody help me figure out how to move these labels over the the right a bit?

I was hoping that the following specification postscript(file="fig.ps",height=2,width=4) par(mar=c(5,5,2,2)+.1,mfrow=c(1,2),mex=.6) would yield the same scaling effect as postscript(file="fig.ps",height=2,width=6) par(mar=c(5,5,2,2)+.1,mfrow=c(1,3),mex=.6) but the fact is that the 'mfrow=c(1,2)' yields smaller plotting frame and bigger font size.

Hi, another question: is there any argument that controls the line width of axis box of xyplot()? I tried lwd=2 or lwd.axis=2 in xyplot() or within scales=list() argument, without success. Thanks John

Hi there, I have a data.frame (pwt6) which I would like to transform: country year gdp MEX 1950 2 MEX 1951 5 BOL 1950 4 BOL 1951 12 ITA 1950 45 ITA 1951 2 This should be the result: year MEX.gdp BOL.gdp ITA.gdp 1950 2 4 45 1951 5 12 2 Right now I have this code (better - no code): country.label<-names(table(pwt6$country)) result<-data.frame(year=NULL) for(i in country.label) ?

Hi, I'am trying to make a multiple bar plot over a map and I'm having difficulties with the distance between axes labels and the axis. Trying to control this with mgp does not help because it controls both axes simultaneously. For example, with default values (mgp = c(3, 1, 0)) y-axis labels are ok, but x-axis labels are not. Setting mgp = c(3, 0, 0) gives good x-axis labels but the

hello all, I want to draw a figure with multiple plot on the same page using the par(fig=value) parameter but > par(fig = c(0, 50, 60, 95)/100, adj = 5/10) > eboulis(iris.acp) > par(fig = c(45, 100, 60, 95)/100, mgp = c(3, 1/2, 0)) > boites(iris.acp) draw the graphics on 2 different pages. what am I doing wrong ? thanks for your help. Mathieu [using R 0.65 under Linux Redhat

Hi, I have created a plot using filled.contour() and have the problem that one of the axis titles and an axis label are overlapping. I have tried changing par()$mgp (with, e.g. par(mgp=c(4,1,0)) ), but this just makes the title go off the screen. I can't work out how to make the plot take up less space in the window, so I can hopefully change mgp and sort the problem. Is changing mgp the only