line2user {baker}

convert line to user coordinates

Description

Here's a version that works with log-scale and linear scale axes. The trick is to express line locations in npc coordinates rather than user coordinates, since the latter are of course not linear when axes are on log scales.

Usage

line2user(line, side)

Arguments

line

integer

side

integer; 1-4

Details

par('cin')[2] * par('cex') * par('lheight') returns the current line height in inches, which we convert to user coordinates by multiplying by diff(grconvertX(0:1, 'inches', 'user')), the length of an inch in user coordinates (horizontally, in this case - if interested in the vertical height of a line in user coords we would use ⁠diff(grconvertY(0:1, 'inches', 'user')))⁠.

Value

a numeric vector of the same length as line; the values represent the coordinates in the current plot and are converted from line.

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29125019/get-margin-line-locations-mgp-in-user-coordinates

Examples

setup_plot <- function(log = "") {
  oldpar <- par(mar = c(2, 10, 2, 2), oma = rep(2, 4))
  plot.new()
  plot.window(xlim = c(1, 10), ylim = c(1, 10), log = log)
  box(which = "plot", lwd = 2, col = "gray40")
  box(which = "figure", lwd = 2, col = "darkred")
  box(which = "outer", lwd = 2, col = "darkgreen")
  text(x = 0.5, y = 0.5, 
       labels = "Plot Region", 
       col = "gray40", font = 2)
  mtext(side = 3, text = "Figure region", line = 0.5, col = "darkred", font = 2)
  mtext(side = 3, text = "Device region", line = 2.5, col = "darkgreen", font = 2)
  for (i in 0:9) {
    mtext(side = 2, col = "darkred", text = paste0("Line", i), line = i)
  }
  par(oldpar)
}
# And here are a couple of examples, applied to your setup_plot with mar=c(5, 5, 5, 5):
setup_plot()
axis(1, line=5)
axis(2, line=5)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 1), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 2), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 3), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 4), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)

setup_plot(log='x')
axis(1, line=5)
axis(2, line=5)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 1), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 2), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 3), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 4), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)


setup_plot(log='y')
axis(1, line=5)
axis(2, line=5)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 1), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 2), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 3), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 4), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)

setup_plot(log='xy')
axis(1, line=5)
axis(2, line=5)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 1), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 2), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(h=line2user(0:4, 3), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)
abline(v=line2user(0:4, 4), lty=3, xpd=TRUE)