[R] TeachingDemos question: my.symbols() alignment problems in complicated layout

[maria at meteo.mcgill.ca]

Hi Hadley and Paul,

thank you a lot for the suggestions...

However, i had also emailed Greg Snow  (author of my.symbols() function)
personally... and Greg has emailed me back with a fixed version of the
my.symbols() function -- to be included in the next release -- that works
without a hitch with layout()...

I am not posting it here, as i don't know if i am allowed...

Cheers,
Maria





>> Here are a couple of options:
>>
>> (i)  use the 'gridBase' package and do these arrow annotations using the
>> 'grid' package, which allows you to control coordinate systems in a more
>> rational manner.  There's an example (perhaps slightly more complicated
>> than you need) in:
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-2.pdf
>>
>> (ii) draw your main plot using 'lattice' and the annotations using
>> 'grid' or possibly 'grImport'.  There's a hint of an example of the
>> latter on slide 18 of:
>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/import.pdf
>>
>> (iii) draw the whole thing using 'grid'.  You can start to get
>> acquainted with grid here:
>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/chapter5.pdf
>
> (iv) Use ggplot2 - particularly geom_segment
> (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/geom_segment.html) and stat_spoke
> (http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/stat_spoke.html)
>
> Hadley
>
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