Error in plot new figure margins too large in R

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I m new to R but I ve made numerous correlation plots with smaller data sets  However  when I try to plot a large dataset  2gb    I can produce the plot just fine  but the legend doesn t show up  Any advice  or alternatives   library gplots  r cor  lt - cor r  layout matrix c 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2   5  2  byrow   TRUE   par oma c 5 7 1 1   cx  lt - rev colorpanel 25  yellow   black   blue    leg  lt - seq min r cor na rm T  max r cor na rm T  length 10  image r cor main  Correlation plot Normal Tumor data  axes F col cx  axis 1  at seq 0 1 length ncol r cor    labels dimnames r cor   2         cex axis 0 9 las 2  axis 2 at seq 0 1 length ncol r cor    labels dimnames r cor   2         cex axis 0 9 las 2  image as matrix leg  col cx axes T            Error in plot new     figure margins too large   tmp  lt - round leg 2  axis 1 at seq 0 1 length length leg    labels tmp cex axis 1

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RStudio Plots canvas is limiting the plot width and heights. However if you make your plot from Rmarkdown code chunk, it works without canvas field limitation because plotting area set according to the paper size.

For instance:

    ```{r}
#inside of code chunk in Rmarkdown
        grid <- par(mfrow=c(4, 5))
        plot(faithful, main="Faithful eruptions")
        plot(large.islands, main="Islands", ylab="Area")
        ...
        par(grid)
    ```

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This error can occur in Rstudio simply because your  Plots  pane is just barely too small   Try zooming your  Files  Plots  Packages  Help  Viewer  and see if it helps

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I found this error today  Initially  I was trying to output it to a  jpeg file with low width and height   jpeg  method1 test jpg   width 900  height 900  res 40    Later I increased the width and height to    jpeg  method1 test jpg   width 1900  height 1900  res 40    The error was not there      You can also play with the resolution  if the resolution is high  you need more width and height

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If you get this message in RStudio  clicking the  broomstick  figure  Clear All Plots  in Plots tab and trying plot   again may work

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I struggled with this error for weeks  using RStudio   I tried moving the plot window bigger and smaller  but that did not consistently help  When I moved  dragged  the application to my bigger monitor  the problem disappeared  I was stunned    so many wasted hours    I knew my code was correct

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Just zoom this area if you use RStudio

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The problem is that the small figure region 2 created by your layout   call is not sufficiently large enough to contain just the default margins  let alone a plot  More generally  you get this error if the size of the plotting region on the device is not large enough to actually do any plotting  For the OP s case the issue was having too small a plotting device to contain all the subplots and their margins and leave a large enough plotting region to draw in  RStudio users can encounter this error if the Plot tab is too small to leave enough room to contain the margins  plotting region etc  This is because the physical size of that pane is the size of the graphics device  These are not independent issues  the plot pane in RStudio is just another plotting device  like png    pdf    windows    and X11    Solutions include   reducing the size of the margins  this might help especially if you are trying  as in the case of the OP  to draw several plots on the same device   increasing the physical dimensions of the device  either in the call to the device  e g  png    pdf    etc  or by resizing the window   pane containing the device  reducing the size of text on the plot as that can control the size of margins etc    Reduce the size of the margins Before the line causing the problem try  par mar   rep 2  4    then plot the second image image as matrix leg  col cx axes T   You ll need to play around with the size of the margins on the par   call I show to get this right  Increase the size of the device You may also need to increase the size of the actual device onto which you are plotting  A final tip  save the par   defaults before changing them  so change your existing par   call to  op  lt - par oma c 5 7 1 1    then at the end of plotting do par op

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Check if your object is a list or a vector  To do this  type is list yourobject   If this is true  try renaming it x lt -unlist yourobject   This will make it into a vector you can plot

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This sometimes happen in RStudio  In order to solve it you can attempt to plot to an external window  Windows-only    windows      create window to plot your file        your plotting code here     dev off

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I had this error when I was trying to plot high dimensional data  If that s what is going on with you  try multidimensional scaling  http   www statmethods net advstats mds html

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I got this error in R Studio  and was simply fixed by making the sidebar bigger by clicking and dragging on its edge from right to left  Picture here  https   janac medium com error-in-plot-new-figure-margins-too-large-in-r-214621b4b2af

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I have just use the Clear all plots then again give the plot command and it was helpfull

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I found the same error today  I have tried the  Clear all Plots  button  but it was giving me the same error  Then this trick worked for me  Try to increase the plot area by dragging  It will help you for sure

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If margin is low  then it is always better to start with new plotting device    dev new     plot     save your plot dev off     You will never get margin error  unless you plot something large which can not be accommodated

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