[R] can the pdf output page break be controlled manually?

[Duncan Murdoch]

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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