[R] landscape plots

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chuck Cleland wrote:

> Is there a set of R expressions that has the same effect as the
> following set of S-Plus 2000 expressions:
> 
> graphsheet(format="printer", orientation="landscape")
> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
> plot(x1, y1)
> plot(x2, y2)
> plot(x3, y3)
> plot(x4, y4)
> dev.off()    # one page of landscape plots sent to printer
> 
> I am having trouble with formulating the equivalent of the first line of
> the above in R.  I want a page of plots that is landscape and makes
> optimal use of a 8.5 by 11 inch piece of paper.  I am using R 0.99.0 on
> Windows 98 SE and S-Plus 2000 on the same machine.   

There is no direct way to do that, that I know of. You ought to be able to
use win.metafile with width=11, height=8.5 and print the result in
landscape, or win.print(width=11, height=8.5) and select landscape from the
printer selection box (if you get one: I did when I tried).

Exactly what happens is rather OS and printer-driver specific: I was using
a networked PostScript printer (Adobe driver) on NT4.

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