[Rd] Problems with example(Grid) in grid package

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 10/24/05, Paul Murrell <p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > The following:
> >
> > library(grid)
> > grid.newpage()
> > example(Grid)
> >
> > has the yaxis label partly cut off and the x axis label does not appear at all.
> > Also ?grid.multipanel in that example brings up documentation for
> > grid-internal but this would not seem to be internal if its part of an example.
>
>
> grid.multipanel() is just a demo hack function, not intended for people
> to use for anything serious, just meant to provide an example of what
> can be done.  It had some merit when grid was just a prototype package
> for people to play with.  Now that grid is more mature I should probably
> just kill grid.multipanel().

If you kill it I still think it would be a nice to provide a similar
example.  I am sorry that I missed knowing about it when initially
trying to learn how to do layouts since it might have saved me some
time.  Maybe it can be incorporated into the example section of one
of the help files or into a demo or even a vignette on grid.multipanel.

Also note that grid.multipanel is used not only in Grid but also in:
  http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/grid/doc/rotated.pdf