[R] Base and lattice graphics on the same graphics page

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 22:32, John Maindonald wrote:
> 
>>Although base graphics does not mix with lattice in the one graph,
>>I've found that print.trellis(position=..., ) and the use of
>>par(fig=...)
>>to put regular and trellis graphics on the one graphics page works
>>like a treat, at least in version 2.0.1 of R.  [Base graphics
>>functions that are themselves inconsistent with par(fig=...) are
>>obviously disallowed.]
>>
>>I am wondering whether there are caveats of which I and others
>>should be aware, or whether there is a risk that the ongoing
>>development of R's graphics abilities will render such a cohabitation
>>unworkably fractious.
> 
> 
> Paul would know better, but I think that's unlikely. In fact, the 
> gridBase package allows you to do use grid (and hence lattice) 
> functions to add to a base plot, as well as (I didn't realize this 
> before) the other way round. The only caveat is that resizing the 
> device may mess things up. 


Yep, sounds like you're doing exactly the sort of thing that gridBase 
does.  See R News 3(2) for a discussion.

Paul


> You may have to be careful with new devices. Your example pasted on a 
> fresh session (tested only on r-devel) starts a new page for the 
> boxplot since it thinks that new=TRUE doesn't make sense (because 
> there's no 'old' plot yet).
> 
> Deepayan
> 
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