Reset par to Default Values in R (Example)
In this article, I’ll show how to set the par options back to default in the R programming language.
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Let’s dive right into the exemplifying R syntax.
Example Plot with User-Defined par Options
Let’s first define some par options for a plot.
par(mar = c(10, 10, 10, 10)) # Set par options
Now, we can draw a plot with these par options as shown below:
plot(1:10) # Create plot
Figure 1 shows the output of the previous R syntax: A simple scatterplot in R. You can also see that the borders of the plot show a lot of white space (as specified in par).
Example: Resetting par Options Using dev.off() Function
The following R programming code illustrates how to reset the par specifications back to the default settings. In the following R code, we are using the dev.off function to reset par:
dev.off() # Applying dev.off
Let’s draw our plot again:
plot(1:10) # Creating plot again
The output of the previous R programming syntax is shown in Figure 2 – As you can see, the par options were set back to default values (i.e. additional white space was removed).
Video, Further Resources & Summary
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