Specify Width and Height of Plot

Question

I have a panel containing three plots. How can I use par to specify the width and height of the main panel so it is always at a fixed size?

Answer 1

Neither solution works in Jupyter notebooks. Here is a general approach that works in any environment:

options(repr.plot.width=6, repr.plot.height=4)

Just keep the following function handy:

set_plot_dimensions <- function(width_choice, height_choice) {
        options(repr.plot.width=width_choice, repr.plot.height=height_choice)
        }

EXAMPLE

Data

 x <-  c(37.50,46.79,48.30,46.04,43.40,39.25,38.49,49.51,40.38,36.98,40.00,38.49,37.74,47.92,44.53,44.91,44.91,40.00,41.51,47.92,36.98,43.40)

Call function with dimensions, and draw plot:

set_plot_dimensions(6, 4)
show_distribution(x, 'test vector')

set_plot_dimensions(16, 4)
show_distribution(x, 'test vector')