R help - Jul 2009 - skip plot/blank plot on purpose (multi-plot question)

Hi,
   Say that I've got a function that has the following code in it:

X11(width=10, height=10)
layout(rbind(c(1,1,1,2,2,2), c(3,4,5,6,7,8), c(9,10,11,12,13,14)),
height=c(3,1,1))
layout.show(14)

Sometimes when I call this function it will turn out by design that
one or more of the data sets that I use to create the plots in
positions 3-14 are empty. As there is a day of the week relationship
between 3-8 and 9-14, and say that 12 is an empty set, how can I skip
12, leave it blank or make it blank, and then make the next data set
plot in position 13?

1) Is there some generic way to call plot and have it plot, but it
plots nothing so I don't see anything at all in position 12? This
could be a blank plot function I call when I notice the data set is
empty.

2) Is there some generic way to specify the position number I want the
next plot to use so that I'd not plot 12 but would specify 13?

Thanks,
Mark

Well, all of this can be done quite nicely with lattice graphics: ?xyplot 
(See, e.g. the "skip" argument)


1) Is there some generic way to call plot and have it plot, but it
plots nothing so I don't see anything at all in position 12? This
could be a blank plot function I call when I notice the data set is
empty.

-- But if you do not wish to learn lattice, please at least read the docs on
standard graphics: ?plot (the type argument) ?plot.default (the axes
argument)

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech, Inc.

2) Is there some generic way to specify the position number I want the
next plot to use so that I'd not plot 12 but would specify 13?

Thanks,
Mark

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com>
To: "Bert Gunter" <gunter.berton at gene.com>
Cc: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: 7/27/09 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [R] skip plot/blank plot on purpose (multi-plot question)


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Bert Gunter<gunter.berton at gene.com>
wrote:
> Well, all of this can be done quite nicely with lattice graphics: ?xyplot
> (See, e.g. the "skip" argument)
>
>
> 1) Is there some generic way to call plot and have it plot, but it
> plots nothing so I don't see anything at all in position 12? This
> could be a blank plot function I call when I notice the data set is
> empty.
>
> -- But if you do not wish to learn lattice, please at least read the docs
on
> standard graphics: ?plot (the type argument) ?plot.default (the axes
> argument)

Thank you. It was the ?plot.default/axis argument that I was looking
for. I knew type="n".

Cheers,
Mark
>
> -- Bert Gunter
> Genentech, Inc.
>
> 2) Is there some generic way to specify the position number I want the
> next plot to use so that I'd not plot 12 but would specify 13?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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