[R] plot method for rasters and layout

[Michael Sumner]

Is this with SDI in Windows? I'd update to a recent version of R, and
please provide reproducible code next time.

It could be the same as this issue, now long ago fixed:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2011-February/059906.html

Cheers, Mike.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Olivier Eterradossi
<Olivier.Eterradossi at mines-ales.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I thought I was used to layouts, but today I am facing a problem I cannot
> overcome  :
>
>
>
> On my R installation (Windows 7 Pro, SP1, R version 2.13.0, daily update of
> packages), I am not able to put raster plots in user defined layouts :
>
>
>
>> layout.matrix<-matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,5),2,3)
>
>> layout(mat=layout.matrix)
>
>> layout.show(5)
>
>
>
> works fine, I get the correct frames in the correct place. But, using 5
> graphs (that all plot OK if plotted alone) :
>
>
>
>> plot(raster1)
>
>> plot(raster2)
>
>> plot(raster3)
>
>> plot(raster4)
>
>> plot(any.other.graph.meant.to.be.in.frame.5)
>
>
>
> Plots giving the same layout  as :
>
>
>
>> par(mfrow=c(2,3))
>
>> plot(raster1)
>
>> plot(raster2)
>
>> plot(raster3)
>
>> plot(raster4)
>
>> plot(any.other.graph.supposed.to.fall.in.frame.5)
>
>
>
> i.e. 3 rasterplots on the first row followed by the fourth raster and the
> fifth graph, all of same size, the [2,3] frame being empty.
>
>
>
> I suppose this is due to a conflict between layout and the bigplot/smallplot
> approach used by the imageplot() function, from which the plot method for
> rasters is said to be inspired. But I am not sure and I cannot work it out.
>
>
>
> Do I miss something, and can anybody help ?
>
>
>
> All the best to all of you, thanks as always for all the work done here !
> Olivier
>
>
>
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Michael Sumner
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