R help - Jun 2010 - Trying to tile wireframe plots (using lattice package)

Hi all,

I'm trying to print a number of wireframe plots (generated using the 
lattice package), and I want them to appear in a two-by two matrix along 
with some other (standard) plots. In other words I am trying to create a 
subplot or tiled plot that works for wireframes.

I've tried the methods discussed in:
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/07/21238.html
but while they work for hist(), they don't work for wireframe().

I've also tried split.screen() and layout() - see below:

## Example of what I'm trying to do
library(lattice)
layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4), 2, 2, byrow = TRUE))
# Top-left, as expected
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100))
# Top-right, as expected
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100))
# But the volcano fills the whole the device ...
wireframe(volcano)
## End of example

All has been to no avail up until now. I'd be grateful for any 
suggestions you may have.

Best,
Magnus

ps. If there is a way to do this using intermediate files (saving each 
plot as a PS file, and then tiling multiple PS files within the same 
device), that would be a totally acceptable solution for me as well.

The layout function is base graphics, wireframe from lattice is grid based and
they don't play well together without extra effort.  The simplest option
will probably be to look at the help page for print.trellis, specifically the
split and more arguments.  Then look at the examples to see if this works for
you in place of layout.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Torfason
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 12:50 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Trying to tile wireframe plots (using lattice package)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to print a number of wireframe plots (generated using the
> lattice package), and I want them to appear in a two-by two matrix
> along
> with some other (standard) plots. In other words I am trying to create
> a
> subplot or tiled plot that works for wireframes.
> 
> I've tried the methods discussed in:
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/07/21238.html
> but while they work for hist(), they don't work for wireframe().
> 
> I've also tried split.screen() and layout() - see below:
> 
> ## Example of what I'm trying to do
> library(lattice)
> layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4), 2, 2, byrow = TRUE))
> # Top-left, as expected
> plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100))
> # Top-right, as expected
> plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100))
> # But the volcano fills the whole the device ...
> wireframe(volcano)
> ## End of example
> 
> All has been to no avail up until now. I'd be grateful for any
> suggestions you may have.
> 
> Best,
> Magnus
> 
> ps. If there is a way to do this using intermediate files (saving each
> plot as a PS file, and then tiling multiple PS files within the same
> device), that would be a totally acceptable solution for me as well.
> 
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