[R] par(mfcol=2, mfrow=3) equivalent for trellis

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:06, Dieter Menne wrote:
> 
>>Dear friends of lattice,
>>
>>I know how to position trellis plots with print(...,split,more=T) or
>>(...position).
>>
>>Sometimes I wish I had something like the old "par(mfcol=2, mfrow=3)"
>>mechanism, where the next free viewport is automatically chosen. I
>>tried fiddling with grid-viewports, but could not find an easy
>>solution.
>>
>>Did I miss something?
> 
> 
> This is definitely not doable right now (since print.trellis by default 
> plots on a new page), but it can be implemented if there's interest. 
> The easiest solution would involve changing print.trellis to get the 
> default 'split' from some sort of user defined setting. Most of the 
> mechanism required for this is already in place. 
> 
> A grid level implementation of par(mfrow) may help, but I don't think 
> that's in keeping with grid's design goals.


Right.  Everything in grid happens in the current "viewport" and a 
viewport does not have to (and often does not) correspond to a plot. 
There is no obvious "next viewport" for grid to go to (in general).

Paul
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