Many thanks, just the trick! a > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarno Tuimala [mailto:jtuimala at csc.fi] > Sent: 22 April 2008 11:04 > To: Al Ivens > Cc: 'bioc' > Subject: Re: [BioC] Changing margins on a boxplot > > > Hi! > > You can set margins to boxplot (or any plot for that matter) > by first setting > the graphical parameters, e.g.: > > par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) # Removes margins > par(mar=c(5,4,4,2)+0.1) # Default > par(mar=c(8,8,4,2)) # Larger bottom and left margins > > and then calling the boxplot function: > > boxplot(rnorm(100)) > > You can do this using the pars -argument in the boxplot > command, also, e.g.: > > boxplot(n, pars=list(par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)))) > > - Jarno > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Al Ivens wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am generating a multiple boxplot for my data, and trying > to include > > several pieces of information for each box along the x axis. I can > > generate the labels fine, but can not increase the margins > to enable > > me to see them all. I am used to using > > > > margins=c(5,8) > > > > or similar, but this does not work for box plots as far as > I can see. > > I tried passing: > > > > ...,pars="margins=c(5,8)",... > > > > to the boxplot command line, but to no avail. > > > > Is there a simple way of doing it? > > > > Cheers and thanks for any guidance! > > > > a > > > > > > > > R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08) > > i386-pc-mingw32 > > > > locale: > > LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United > > Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United > > Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioconductor mailing list > > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > > Search the archives: > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > Jarno Tuimala, PhD, bioinformatics, CSC, P.O.Box 405, > FI-02101 Espoo, Finland > tel.: +358 9 457 2226, fax: +358 9 457 2302, e-mail: > jarno.tuimala at csc.fi CSC is the Finnish IT Center for > Science, http://www.csc.fi/molbio > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------- > -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.