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Javier2013
Javier2013

Reputation: 503

Change the size of a plot when plotting multiple plots in R

I want to know if there is a way to define the size of a plot in R, when you are plotting different plots using the par(mfrow=c()) function.

As a simple example take this:

par(mfrow = c(3,1))
plot(1:2)
plot(1:2)
plot(1:2)

All plots will have the same size.

Is it possible, for instance, to make the size of the third plot different? For example make it half the size of the other plots?

If I use this:

par(mfrow = c(3,1))
plot(1:2)
plot(1:2)
plot(1:2, ylim =c(0,1))

The ylim axis changes but no the size of the plot.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 21

Views: 64933

Answers (2)

danielk
danielk

Reputation: 19

another option would be to use ggarrange. the nice thing about it is that you can use ggarange not just on plots but also on "arranged" plots that you've created with ggarrange, which makes it easy to first arrange e.g. two smaller plots and then arrange them together with one bigger one.

Upvotes: 1

Batanichek
Batanichek

Reputation: 7871

Try layout for example

layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3,4,4), nrow = 3, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE))
plot(1,main=1)
plot(2,main=2)
plot(3,main=3)
plot(4,main=4)

enter image description here

layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,1,1,2,3,4,4), nrow = 3, ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE))
plot(1,main=1)
plot(2,main=2)
plot(3,main=3)
plot(4,main=4)

give you enter image description here

Also you can use par(fig= ) for example

par(mar=c(2,2,2,1))
par(fig=c(0,7,6,10)/10)
plot(1,main=1)
par(fig=c(7,10,6,10)/10)
par(new=T)
plot(2,main=2)
par(fig=c(0,7,0,6)/10)
par(new=T)
plot(3,main=3)
par(fig=c(7,10,0,6)/10)
par(new=T)
plot(4,main=4)

Give you enter image description here

but i think layout better for use

Upvotes: 30

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