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Mar

Set Plot Margins and Distances

Description

Plot margins are normally set by par("mar"). However one is forced to always define all margins, even if just one should be altered. The convenience function Mar() allows to set one single margin (or several) while leaving the others unchanged.

Mgp() does the same for the distances of axis title, labels and line.

Usage

Mar(bottom = NULL, left = NULL, top = NULL, right = NULL, outer = FALSE, 
    reset = FALSE)
Mgp(title = NULL, labels = NULL, line = NULL, reset = FALSE)

Arguments

`bottom`	the bottom margin, if set to `NULL` the current value will be maintained.
`left`	the left margin, if set to `NULL` the current value will be maintained.
`top`	the top margin, if set to `NULL` the current value will be maintained.
`right`	the right margin, if set to `NULL` the current value will be maintained.
`outer`	logical, defining if inner margins (`par("mar")`) or the outer margins (`par("oma")`) should be set. Default is `FALSE`, meaning that the inner margins will be concerned.
`reset`	if set to `TRUE` the margins are reset to the defaults (respecting `outer`). Other arguments are ignored.
`title`	margin line for the axis title (default 3)
`labels`	margin line for the axis labels (default 1)
`line`	margin line for the axis line (default 0)

Details

Running Mar() without any arguments will return the current settings, either par("mar"), when outer is set to FALSE or par("oma") for outer = TRUE.

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

Examples

# largen the left margin only
Mar(left=10.1)   # or as alternative: Mar(, 10.1)
Mgp(title=6)     # ylab must be placed a little further to the left
barplot(1:7, names=levels(d.pizza$driver), horiz=TRUE, las=1, 
        ylab="driver", col=Pal("Helsana"))

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Authors

Andri Signorell [aut, cre], Ken Aho [ctb], Andreas Alfons [ctb], Nanina Anderegg [ctb], Tomas Aragon [ctb], Chandima Arachchige [ctb], Antti Arppe [ctb], Adrian Baddeley [ctb], Kamil Barton [ctb], Ben Bolker [ctb], Hans W. Borchers [ctb], Frederico Caeiro [ctb], Stephane Champely [ctb], Daniel Chessel [ctb], Leanne Chhay [ctb], Nicholas Cooper [ctb], Clint Cummins [ctb], Michael Dewey [ctb], Harold C. Doran [ctb], Stephane Dray [ctb], Charles Dupont [ctb], Dirk Eddelbuettel [ctb], Claus Ekstrom [ctb], Martin Elff [ctb], Jeff Enos [ctb], Richard W. Farebrother [ctb], John Fox [ctb], Romain Francois [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Tal Galili [ctb], Matthias Gamer [ctb], Joseph L. Gastwirth [ctb], Vilmantas Gegzna [ctb], Yulia R. Gel [ctb], Sereina Graber [ctb], Juergen Gross [ctb], Gabor Grothendieck [ctb], Frank E. Harrell Jr [ctb], Richard Heiberger [ctb], Michael Hoehle [ctb], Christian W. Hoffmann [ctb], Soeren Hojsgaard [ctb], Torsten Hothorn [ctb], Markus Huerzeler [ctb], Wallace W. Hui [ctb], Pete Hurd [ctb], Rob J. Hyndman [ctb], Christopher Jackson [ctb], Matthias Kohl [ctb], Mikko Korpela [ctb], Max Kuhn [ctb], Detlew Labes [ctb], Friederich Leisch [ctb], Jim Lemon [ctb], Dong Li [ctb], Martin Maechler [ctb], Arni Magnusson [ctb], Ben Mainwaring [ctb], Daniel Malter [ctb], George Marsaglia [ctb], John Marsaglia [ctb], Alina Matei [ctb], David Meyer [ctb], Weiwen Miao [ctb], Giovanni Millo [ctb], Yongyi Min [ctb], David Mitchell [ctb], Franziska Mueller [ctb], Markus Naepflin [ctb], Daniel Navarro [ctb], Henric Nilsson [ctb], Klaus Nordhausen [ctb], Derek Ogle [ctb], Hong Ooi [ctb], Nick Parsons [ctb], Sandrine Pavoine [ctb], Tony Plate [ctb], Luke Prendergast [ctb], Roland Rapold [ctb], William Revelle [ctb], Tyler Rinker [ctb], Brian D. Ripley [ctb], Caroline Rodriguez [ctb], Nathan Russell [ctb], Nick Sabbe [ctb], Ralph Scherer [ctb], Venkatraman E. Seshan [ctb], Michael Smithson [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Karline Soetaert [ctb], Werner A. Stahel [ctb], Alec Stephenson [ctb], Mark Stevenson [ctb], Ralf Stubner [ctb], Matthias Templ [ctb], Duncan Temple Lang [ctb], Terry Therneau [ctb], Yves Tille [ctb], Luis Torgo [ctb], Adrian Trapletti [ctb], Joshua Ulrich [ctb], Kevin Ushey [ctb], Jeremy VanDerWal [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], John Verzani [ctb], Pablo J. Villacorta Iglesias [ctb], Gregory R. Warnes [ctb], Stefan Wellek [ctb], Hadley Wickham [ctb], Rand R. Wilcox [ctb], Peter Wolf [ctb], Daniel Wollschlaeger [ctb], Joseph Wood [ctb], Ying Wu [ctb], Thomas Yee [ctb], Achim Zeileis [ctb]

Initial release

2021-04-09

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