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

[Michael Bach]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.
>

Will do. Thanks for the hint