On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Ali Tofigh <alix.tof...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when using the grid package, I've come across this weird behaviour
>
> pdf("test.pdf"); plot.new(); grid.rect(gp = gpar(fill="blue"));
> plot.new();  grid.rect(gp = gpar(fill="blue")); dev.off()
>
> The first page is filled completely with a blue rectangle, but in the
> second page, the margins clip the rectangle. This is causing me
> considerable headache, as I rely on many grid functions for plotting.
> This seems like a bug to me, or is there something about the behaviour
> of plot.new() and/or grid functions that I don't understand?
>

Why would you expect plot.new from base graphics to play nice with grid ?
if you like/use grid graphics, stay in that world:

pdf("test.pdf");
grid.rect(gp = gpar(fill="blue"));
grid.newpage();
grid.rect(gp = gpar(fill="blue"));
dev.off()





> /Ali
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