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Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large, Scatter plot

Everytime I want to run this code it always says:

Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large

and I don't know how to fix it. Here is my code:

par(mfcol=c(5,3))
hist(RtBio, main="Histograma de Bio Pappel")
boxplot(RtBio, main="Diagrama de Caja de Bio Pappel")
stem(RtBio)
plot(RtBio, main="Gráfica de Dispersión")

hist(RtAlsea, main="Histograma de Alsea")
boxplot(Alsea, main="Diagrama de caja de Alsea")
stem(RtAlsea)
plot(RtTelev, main="Gráfica de distribución de Alsea")

hist(RtTelev, main="Histograma de Televisa")
boxplot(telev, main="Diagrama de Caja de Televisa")
stem(Telev)
plot(Telev, main="Gráfica de dispersión de Televisa")

hist(RtWalmex, main="Histograma de Walmex")
boxplot(RtWalmex, main="Diagrama de caja de Walmex")
stem(RtWalmex)
plot(RtWalmex, main="Gráfica de dispersión de Walmex")

hist(RtIca, main="Histograma de Ica")
boxplot(RtIca, main="Gráfica de caja de Ica")
stem(RtIca)
plot(RtIca, main="Gráfica de dispersión de Ica")
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3 Answers

Kajalsi45d
Every time you are creating plots you might get this error - "Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large". To avoid such errors you can first check par("mar") output. You should be getting:

[1] 5.1 4.1 4.1 2.1

To change that write:

par(mar=c(1,1,1,1))

This should rectify the error. Or else you can change the values accordingly.

Hope this works for you.
Bharatgxwzm
Just a side-note. Sometimes this "margin" error occurs because you want to save a high-resolution figure (eg. dpi = 300 or res = 300) in R.
In this case, what you need to do is to specify the width and height. (Btw, ggsave() doesn't require this.)

This causes the margin error:

# eg. for tiff()

par(mar=c(1,1,1,1))

tiff(filename =  "qq.tiff",

     res = 300,                                                 # the margin error.

     compression = c( "lzw") )

# qq plot for genome wide association study (just an example)

qqman::qq(df$rawp, main = "Q-Q plot of GWAS p-values", cex = .3)

dev.off()

This will fix the margin error:

# eg. for tiff()

par(mar=c(1,1,1,1))

tiff(filename =  "qq.tiff",

     res = 300,                                                 # the margin error.

     width = 5, height = 4, units = 'in',                       # fixed

     compression = c( "lzw") )

# qq plot for genome wide association study (just an example)

qqman::qq(df$rawp, main = "Q-Q plot of GWAS p-values", cex = .3)

dev.off()
kshitijrana14
Invoking dev.off() to make RStudio open up a new graphics device with default settings worked for me. HTH.

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