control left margin

[Andreas Leha]

Hi all,

in an ordinary ggplot, there is from left to right:
- plot.margin[4]
- axis.title.y
- axis.text.y
- axis.ticks.margin
- axis.ticks.length
- border of the plot area
- ...
(I am not sure, this is complete, though)

My question is:
How can I control the space up to the border of the plotting area?

As an example, I'd like the border of the plotting area to be 2cm from
the left border of the device -- independently from my
labels/fontsizes/etc.


I hope, the question is clear.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Andreas

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

As far as I know, your best bet is to tweak the gtable object before drawing. I had an example of such manips to align multiple plotting areas:

https://gist.github.com/baptiste/2877821

HTH,

baptiste

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[Andreas Leha]

Hi Babtiste,


baptiste auguie

<baptist...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 14 March 2013 02:05, Andreas Leha
> <andrea...@med.uni-goettingen.de>
> wrote:
>

> [...]

>
> My question is:
> How can I control the space up to the border of the plotting area?
>

> [...]

>
> As far as I know, your best bet is to tweak the gtable object before
> drawing. I had an example of such manips to align multiple plotting
> areas:
>
> https://gist.github.com/baptiste/2877821
>
> HTH,
>
> baptiste

you're a wizard. The alignemt of multiple plotting areas is also my use
case.

Thanks a lot for your code!

(What is the license of your code? Just asking in case I would ever
wrap my code into an R package)

Regards,
Andreas