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user9102437
user9102437

Reputation: 742

How to change plot size in R?

I would like to create two plots side-by-side, but the problem I am running into is that R seemingly can not enlarge the "plotting space", which results in shrinkage of both graphs on the x-axis like so: enter image description here

You can also see that the line names also get cropped due to not enough space being present. Sow the question is: how do I make the plots wider and the labels fully visible? It would be great to avoid any libraries like ggplot, but if there is no other way, this will be fine as well.

Here is how the plots above are constructed:

layout(matrix(c(1,2), 1, 2, byrow = TRUE))  
plot(plot1)
plot(plot2) # axis(4, at = coef1[nrow(coef1), ], labels = colnames(coef1), cex = 0.8, adj = 0, las=2)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 18030

Answers (2)

bkowshik
bkowshik

Reputation: 13

If you are working inside a Jupiter notebook, I found the answer on this link: https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2015/09/resizing-plots-in-the-r-kernel-for-jupyter-notebooks.html

library(repr)
library(ISLR)

options(repr.plot.width=20, repr.plot.height=20)
pairs(Auto)

Upvotes: 0

Rui Barradas
Rui Barradas

Reputation: 76402

You can open a graphics device, such as x11(), windows() or cairo() setting the width and height. This will automatically resize the plot regions. In the example that follows, making them larger.

x11(width = 20, height = 4)
layout(matrix(c(1,2), 1, 2, byrow = TRUE))  
plot(1:10)
plot(-(1:10))

As for the margins, see help("par"), entries for oma and mar.

Upvotes: 2

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