limit to complex plots?

-----Original Message-----
From:	SuzieBlatt at netscape.net [SMTP:SuzieBlatt at netscape.net]
Sent:	Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:15 AM
To:	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:	[R] limit to complex plots?


Hello all.

I am trying to create one figure, divided into 6 graphs/plots each with an
inset sub-figure.  I can use to layout command to generate one figure with
one inset sub-figure, but cannot seem to do it for multiple figures on one
page.

I've tried a test with the following code:

layout(matrix(c(1,2,3,4), nrow=2, byrow=TRUE))
plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10))
plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10))
plot(rnorm(30), rnorm(30))
plot(rnotm(40), rnorm(40))
layout.show(4)

#this works and gives me my one page with 4 figures on it

layout(matrix(c(0,0,0,0,0,1,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,3,0,4), nrow=4, byrow=TRUE))
par(new=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10))

par(new=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(20), rnorm(20))

par(new=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(30), rnorm(30))

par(new=TRUE)
plot(rnorm(40), rnorm(40))

# this is the part that doesn't.  I've tried only one 'par(new=TRUE)'
command before ALL the plot commands and as written above.  The best I can
get is 3 sub-figures #2,3 and 4, in positions 1,2 and 3.

Has anyone figured this out?

thanks,
Suzanne Blatt