[R] multiple plots with a title using postscript()

[Peter Dalgaard]

array chip wrote:
> Thanks, yes, it worked. I got another problem. I
> generated these plots into a postscript file, now the
> title was truncated (only show lower half). I tried
> changing region argument in the postscript(), but not
> working. any suggestions?
>   
I guess you need to increase the outer margins

par(oma=....)

> postscript("database.ps",horizontal=T,color.p=T,ps.region=c(50,7.92,594,784))
>
> par(mfrow=c(2,3))
> plot(..)
> plot(..)
> plot(..)
> plot(..)
> plot(..)
> plot(..)
> mtext('title', outer=T, line=-1,font=1,cex=1.3)
> dev.off()
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
> --- Peter Alspach <PAlspach at hortresearch.co.nz> wrote:
>
>   
>> John
>>
>> ?mtext
>>
>> e.g.  mtext('General title', outer=T, line=-1)
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Peter Alspach
>>  
>>
>>     
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>> array chip
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2008 10:48 a.m.
>>> To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>> Subject: [R] multiple plots with a title
>>>
>>> Hi, I am wondering how can I add a common title to
>>>       
>> the top of 
>>     
>>> a page that contains multiple plots using, e.g.,
>>>       
>> par(mfrow=c(2,3))?
>>     
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> John Zhang
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