How to resolve "Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large" in R Studio?

If x is a data.frame, plot(x) will produce a pairs plot. If x has n columns, a matrix of n x n plots will be drawn. If n is too large, the individual ploty will bee too small (smaller than the space needed already for the margins).

Check how many columns there are in x and if you really want a pairs plot. You may consider a heatmap, using RowSideColors indicating the cluster membership.

Thank you for your response, @DrJochen. I will try your suggestion and hope it will fix the problem.

Hi @Valentin, thank you for your interest. I already tried to move the borders of RStudio but it did not fix the problem, but I will try your second recommendation.

I agree with @Valentin, try

pdf('myplot.pdf')

plot(x, col=(km.out$cluster+1), main="K - Means Clustering Results with K=2",xlab"", ylab"", pch=20, cex=2)

dev.off()

this will produce a pdf file (you can also do the same with .eps format) in the directory.

Thanks @Flavio !

Hi Hasan, another suggestion, following @valentin and @Flavio. When you are plotting such big plots it may happen that just saving it as a pdf with default width and height parameters will produce a heatmap that has superpositions or some parts can be cut off. If you cannot modify the plot features sizes at least what you can do is customize the pdf size to be able to plot big plots and see all the features in them.

> pdf('name.pdf',width = 8.267, height = 11.692)

Best,

Mar

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I think you could try use the "par(mar = rep(m, n))" to limit the plotting.

Increase the size of plot window by dragging the borders.

Increase the size of plot window by dragging the borders and then try to execute the command, hope it works for you. Good luck Hassan

RStudio causes an error when the plot panel is too small to display the chart. Simply expanding the plot panel fixes the bug and displays the chart.

I would like to provide one solution in my special case: when I plotted a heat map of a network meta-analysis, I added "nchar.trts = 4", it helped to shorten the labels of different variables, and then it succeeded. Hope this would be helpful.

@Yiyi Dong added an answer

July 9, 2020

I think you could try use the "par(mar = rep(m, n))" to limit the plotting.

Sir this works thank you .

and Hasan Alanya sir you can try this it confines the plot area.

First, remove plot history from plot tabs using broomstick, then try, if not work, then you can use "par(mar=rep(2, 4))".

Usually with me it works, try to run:

windows() that will open a new plotting window and then run plot.new() command