R help - Apr 2011 - Specify custom par(mfrow()) layout for defined plot()

Dear R Users,

I am doing stats::decompose() on 4 different time series.  When I issue

csdA <- decompose(tsA)
plot(csdA)

I get a summary plot for observed, trend, seasonal and random components
of decomposed time series tsA.  As I understand it, the object returned
by decompose() has it's own plot method where mfrow(4,1) etc. is
defined.  Now suppose I wanted to wrap those mfrow(4,1) into my own
mfrow(2,2) layout.  How could I achieve this?  Is there a general way to
handle these cases?  Something like a "meta" par(mfrow())?

Best Regards,
Michael Bach

On 29.04.2011 17:10, Michael Bach wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
> I am doing stats::decompose() on 4 different time series.  When I issue
>
> csdA<- decompose(tsA)
> plot(csdA)
>
> I get a summary plot for observed, trend, seasonal and random components
> of decomposed time series tsA.  As I understand it, the object returned
> by decompose() has it's own plot method where mfrow(4,1) etc. is
> defined.  Now suppose I wanted to wrap those mfrow(4,1) into my own
> mfrow(2,2) layout.  How could I achieve this?  Is there a general way to
> handle these cases?  Something like a "meta" par(mfrow())?

This does not work and is one of the reasons why the grid package was 
developed.

Uwe Ligges

> Best Regards,
> Michael Bach
>
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