How to draw an empty plot

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I need to make an empty plot  This is the best could I come up with   plot 0  xaxt    n   yaxt    n   bty    n   pch       ylab       xlab         Any simpler solutions    P S   completely empty  no axis etc

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Adam  following your comment above   I wanted the empty plot to serve as filler in a multiplot  mfrow  plot     what you actually want is the mfg option      par mfg c row column     - which controls where you want to put the next plot  For instance  to put a plot in the middle of a 3x3 multiplot  do      par mfrow c 3 3       par mfg c 2 2       plot rnorm 10

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grid newpage      If you re using ggplot  grid      If you just want to activate the device

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An empty plot with some texts which are set position   plot 1 10  1 10 xaxt  n  yaxt  n  bty  n  pch    ylab    xlab     main     sub     mtext  eee   side   3  line   -0 3  adj   0 5  text 5  10 4   ddd   text 5  7   ccc

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There is an interest in your solution that plot new   hasn t though  in the empty plot you  draw  you can write text at specified coordinates with text x        y        your text

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I suggest that someone needs to make empty plot in order to add some graphics on it later  So  using  plot 1  type  n   xlab     ylab     xlim c 0  10   ylim c 0  10     you can specify the axes limits of your graphic

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The following does not plot anything in the plot and it will remain empty   plot NULL  xlim c 0 1   ylim c 0 1   ylab  y label   xlab  x lablel     This is useful when you want to add lines or dots afterwards within a for loop or something similar  Just remember to change the xlim and ylim values based on the data you want to plot   As a side note  This can also be used for Boxplot  Violin plots and swarm plots  for those remember to add add   TRUE to their plotting function and also specify at   to specify on which number you want to plot them  default is x axis unless you have set horz   TRUE in these functions

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This is marginally simpler than your original solution   plot 0 type  n  axes FALSE ann FALSE

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You need a new plot window  and also a coordinate system  so you need plot new   and plot window    then you can start to add graph elements   plot new    plot window  xlim c -5 5   ylim c -5 5     points  rnorm 100   rnorm 100    axis  side 1     example plot

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How about something like   plot new

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If anyone is looking for a ggplot2 solution  you can use either cowplot or patchwork packages    library ggplot2       examples from cowplot vignettes plot mpg  lt - ggplot mpg  aes x   cty  y   hwy  colour   factor cyl        geom point size   2 5  plot diamonds  lt - ggplot diamonds  aes clarity  fill   cut        geom bar       theme axis text x   element text angle   0  vjust   0 5    library cowplot      use NULL plot grid plot mpg  NULL  NULL  plot diamonds    labels   c  A    B    C    D      ncol   2      Note  if you want to initialize an empty drawing canvas  use ggdraw        library patchwork      use plot spacer   plot mpg   plot spacer     plot spacer     plot diamonds     plot layout ncol   2      plot annotation      title    Plot title       subtitle    Plot subtitle       tag levels    A       tag suffix               Created on 2019-03-17 by the reprex package  v0 2 1 9000

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