Message-ID: <4964B627.7050200@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2009-01-07T14:03:19Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: can the pdf output page break be controlled manually?
In-Reply-To: <D48AD7AABC5F441A8827DC0CF97132B5@TCPC000>
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
>
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