Greg is absolutely right: Generally base and grid graphics(which is what lattice plots are based on) don't play well together, and gridBase is meant to address this.
However... The problem here is specifically that the print.trellis (or synonymous plot.trellis) function that is silently invoked to display the xyplot does not "know" about the layout; but it has options that you can use to tell it about it so that you may be able to fiddle with to get something suitable without going all the way to gridBase, e.g. layout(matrix(1:2,nr=1)) ## 1 row 2 columns plot(1:10) ## explicitly call the plot.trellis function with "new" ## and "split" arguments set plot(xyplot(rnorm(10) ~ 1:10),new=FALSE, split=c(2,1,2,1)) Note that the layout() indexing and split indexing are backwards: layout indices are number of rows and columns; while split indexing given number of x positions and y positions = number of columns and rows. Probably the best approach to this in general is to do everything in lattice and use grid viewports to position the plots. But I admit this requires climbing a learning curve. HTH. Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Greg Snow Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:33 AM To: Titus v. d. Malsburg; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] "Normal" plot and xyplot side by side in one figure? Look at the gridBase package. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Titus v. d. Malsburg > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:29 AM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] "Normal" plot and xyplot side by side in one figure? > > Hi list, > > I want to place a plot (eg "plot(1:10)") and a xyplot side by side in > one figure. The two columns should have different widths. If I'm not > missing something, this rules out the standard way: par(mfcol=n). > > I tried layout(), but it doesn't seem to like it when grid scribbles > into its views (the plot works but the view for the xyplot is left > empty). > > I would appreciate any ideas! Thanks in advance. > > Titus > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
