[R] Specify custom par(mfrow()) layout for defined plot()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 2 May 2011, Michael Bach wrote:

> Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> writes:
>
>> On 29.04.2011 17:10, Michael Bach wrote:
>>> Dear R Users,
>>>
>>> I am doing stats::decompose() on 4 different time series.  When I issue
>>>
>>> csdA<- decompose(tsA)
>>> plot(csdA)
>>>
>>> I get a summary plot for observed, trend, seasonal and random components
>>> of decomposed time series tsA.  As I understand it, the object returned
>>> by decompose() has it's own plot method where mfrow(4,1) etc. is
>>> defined.  Now suppose I wanted to wrap those mfrow(4,1) into my own
>>> mfrow(2,2) layout.  How could I achieve this?  Is there a general way to
>>> handle these cases?  Something like a "meta" par(mfrow())?
>>
>>
>> This does not work and is one of the reasons why the grid package was developed.
>>
>
> Does this mean that there is no way whatsoever or that there is a
> workaround via the grid package??

See the gridBase package.

>
> Kind Regards,
> Michael Bach
>
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