[R] Strange behaviour

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Vittorio wrote:
> Paul Murrell [r-help] <20/10/03 09:13 +1300>:
> 
>>Hi
>>..................................................... 
>>The "nasty rectangles" are the output of the layout.show() function. 
>>This function draws a simple diagram (consisting of nasty rectangles) to 
>>indicate the regions that a call to layout() has set up.  It is designed 
>>to help users to understand what on earth the layout() function is 
>>doing.  (It is NOT a necessary part of setting up an arrangement of 
>>plots using the layout() function.)
>>
>>I suspect that the author of "simpleR" may have accidentally left the 
>>layout.show() call in simple.scatterplot() when copying the example from 
>>the layout() help file (apologies to John Verzani if this is an unfair 
>>diagnosis).
>>
>>So the immediate solution to your problem is to remove the line ...
>>
>>    layout.show(nf)
>>
>>... from simple.scatterplot().  The output should then be a single page 
>>which should "include" ok in latex.
>>
>>The larger problem of how to get at individual pages of output is 
>>probably best solved using something like the "onefile" argument to 
>>devices.  For example, look at the files produced by ...
>>
>>    pdf(onefile=FALSE)
>>    example(layout)
>>
>>... and at the help page for pdf() to see more about how to do this.
>>
>>Hope that helps
>>...............................
> 
> 
> Yes, Paul, definitely it helps. Thanks!
> 
> I obtained what I wanted. 
> 
> Now, I want to control the output of the pdf() command making it write
> a specific file chosen by me and not the system. After reading the
> help page for the pdf, I was unable to do it.
> 
> E.g. I issued
>  
> onefile<-FALSE
> pdf(file=ifelse(onefile,,"vic.pdf")
> example(layout)
> 
> 
> And I obtained a 5-pages vic.pdf with page 1-4 full of "nasty
> rectangles" of any kind and page 5 with the right picture.


You need something like ...

     pdf("yourname%03d.pdf", onefile=FALSE)
     example(layout)

Paul
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