In this article, you will learn to use par() function to put multiple graphs in a single plot by passing graphical parameters mfrow and mfcol.
The plot command will try to produce the appropriate plots based on the data type. The data that is defined above, though, is numeric data. You need to convert the data to factors to make sure that the plot command treats it in an appropriate way. The as.factor command is used to cast the data as factors and ensures that R treats it as discrete. Mgp – A numeric vector of length 3, which sets the axis label locations relative to the edge of the inner plot window. The first value represents the location the labels (i.e. Xlab and ylab in plot), the second the tick-mark labels, and third the tick marks. The default is c(3, 1, 0).
R par() function
We can put multiple graphs in a single plot by setting some graphical parameters with the help of par()
function. R programming has a lot of graphical parameters which control the way our graphs are displayed.
The par()
function helps us in setting or inquiring about these parameters. For example, you can look at all the parameters and their value by calling the function without any argument.
You will see a long list of parameters and to know what each does you can check the help section ?par
. Here we will focus on those which help us in creating subplots.
Graphical parameter mfrow
can be used to specify the number of subplot we need.
It takes in a vector of form c(m, n)
which divides the given plot into m*n array of subplots. For example, if we need to plot two graphs side by side, we would have m=1
and n=2
. Following example illustrates this.
This same phenomenon can be achieved with the graphical parameter mfcol
.
Sometimes we need to put two or more graphs in a single plot.
R par() function
We can put multiple graphs in a single plot by setting some graphical parameters with the help of par()
function. R programming has a lot of graphical parameters which control the way our graphs are displayed.
The par()
function helps us in setting or inquiring about these parameters. For example, you can look at all the parameters and their value by calling the function without any argument.
You will see a long list of parameters and to know what each does you can check the help section ?par
. Here we will focus on those which help us in creating subplots.
Graphical parameter mfrow
can be used to specify the number of subplot we need.
It takes in a vector of form c(m, n)
which divides the given plot into m*n array of subplots. For example, if we need to plot two graphs side by side, we would have m=1
and n=2
. Following example illustrates this.
This same phenomenon can be achieved with the graphical parameter mfcol
.
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The only difference between the two is that, mfrow
fills in the subplot region row wise while mfcol
fills it column wise.
Same plot with the change par(mfcol = c(2, 2))
Qc sneakers for women. would look as follows. Note that only the ordering of the subplot is different.
More Precise Control
The graphical parameter fig
lets us control the location of a figure precisely in a plot.
We need to provide the coordinates in a normalized form as c(x1, x2, y1, y2)
. For example, the whole plot area would be c(0, 1, 0, 1)
with (x1, y1) = (0, 0)
being the lower-left corner and (x2, y2) = (1, 1)
being the upper-right corner.
Note: we have used parameters cex
to decrease the size of labels and mai
to define margins.
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The numbers assigned to fig
were arrived at with a hit-and-trial method to achieve the best looking plot.
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