R help - Jan 2009 - can the pdf output page break be controlled manually?

I would like to control where to make a page break in my pdf file.
The following code renders three pages of output. But I would like to be
able to control the page breaks.

pdf(file="test.pdf", paper="a4")
      par(mfrow=c(2,2))
      hist(rnorm(100))
	hist(rnorm(100))
      hist(rnorm(100))
	plot.new()

	par(mfrow=c(1,1))
	hist(rnorm(100))
	hist(rnorm(100))
dev.off()

It would be much more convenient though, to enter a page break command
within the code instead of plot.new().

Is there a way to do this?

TIA, Mark

Try just leaving off the 'plot.new()'; When you change mfrow it
creates a new page.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Mark Heckmann <mark.heckmann at gmx.de>
wrote:
> I would like to control where to make a page break in my pdf file.
> The following code renders three pages of output. But I would like to be
> able to control the page breaks.
>
> pdf(file="test.pdf", paper="a4")
>      par(mfrow=c(2,2))
>      hist(rnorm(100))
>        hist(rnorm(100))
>      hist(rnorm(100))
>        plot.new()
>
>        par(mfrow=c(1,1))
>        hist(rnorm(100))
>        hist(rnorm(100))
> dev.off()
>
> It would be much more convenient though, to enter a page break command
> within the code instead of plot.new().
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> TIA, Mark
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?

On 1/7/2009 5:01 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> I would like to control where to make a page break in my pdf file.
> The following code renders three pages of output. But I would like to be
> able to control the page breaks.
> 
> pdf(file="test.pdf", paper="a4")
>       par(mfrow=c(2,2))
>       hist(rnorm(100))
> 	hist(rnorm(100))
>       hist(rnorm(100))
> 	plot.new()
> 
> 	par(mfrow=c(1,1))
> 	hist(rnorm(100))
> 	hist(rnorm(100))
> dev.off()
> 
> It would be much more convenient though, to enter a page break command
> within the code instead of plot.new().
The par(mfrow=c(1,1)) command will cause a page break, so just do 
nothing.  I don't know if that's "much more convenient" than
entering
plot.new(), but it's a little better.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> TIA, Mark
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.