[R] packGrob and dynamic resizing

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


baptiste auguie wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm trying to follow an old document to use Grid frames,
> 
> Creating Tables of Text Using grid
> Paul Murrell
> July 9, 2003
> 
>  As a minimal example, I wrote this,
> 
> gf <- grid.frame(layout = grid.layout(1, 1), draw = TRUE)
>  label1 <- textGrob("test", x = 0, just = "left", name="test")
> 
> gf=placeGrob(gf, rectGrob(), row = 1, col = 1)
> gf=packGrob(gf, label1, row = 1, col = 1)


You need 'dynamic=TRUE' in the call to packGrob() if you want the 
automatic updating.

Paul


> grid.draw(gf)
> 
> grid.edit("test", label = "longer text", grep=T)
> 
> I'm a bit lost here, as I was expecting the frame to be automatically
> adjusted to fit the new text.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> baptiste
> 
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