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grid (version 3.3.3)

Grid Viewports: Create a Grid Viewport

Description

These functions create viewports, which describe rectangular regions on a graphics device and define a number of coordinate systems within those regions.

Usage

viewport(x = unit(0.5, "npc"), y = unit(0.5, "npc"),
         width = unit(1, "npc"), height = unit(1, "npc"),
         default.units = "npc", just = "centre",
         gp = gpar(), clip = "inherit",
         xscale = c(0, 1), yscale = c(0, 1),
         angle = 0,
         layout = NULL,
         layout.pos.row = NULL, layout.pos.col = NULL,
         name = NULL)
vpList(...)
vpStack(...)
vpTree(parent, children)

Arguments

x
A numeric vector or unit object specifying x-location.
y
A numeric vector or unit object specifying y-location.
width
A numeric vector or unit object specifying width.
height
A numeric vector or unit object specifying height.
default.units
A string indicating the default units to use if x, y, width, or height are only given as numeric vectors.
just
A string or numeric vector specifying the justification of the viewport relative to its (x, y) location. If there are two values, the first value specifies horizontal justification and the second value specifies vertical justification. Possible string values are: "left", "right", "centre", "center", "bottom", and "top". For numeric values, 0 means left alignment and 1 means right alignment.
gp
An object of class gpar, typically the output from a call to the function gpar. This is basically a list of graphical parameter settings.
clip
One of "on", "inherit", or "off", indicating whether to clip to the extent of this viewport, inherit the clipping region from the parent viewport, or turn clipping off altogether. For back-compatibility, a logical value of TRUE corresponds to "on" and FALSE corresponds to "inherit".
xscale
A numeric vector of length two indicating the minimum and maximum on the x-scale. The limits may not be identical.
yscale
A numeric vector of length two indicating the minimum and maximum on the y-scale. The limits may not be identical.
angle
A numeric value indicating the angle of rotation of the viewport. Positive values indicate the amount of rotation, in degrees, anticlockwise from the positive x-axis.
layout
A Grid layout object which splits the viewport into subregions.
layout.pos.row
A numeric vector giving the rows occupied by this viewport in its parent's layout.
layout.pos.col
A numeric vector giving the columns occupied by this viewport in its parent's layout.
name
A character value to uniquely identify the viewport once it has been pushed onto the viewport tree.
...
Any number of grid viewport objects.
parent
A grid viewport object.
children
A vpList object.
x
A numeric vector or unit object specifying x-location.
y
A numeric vector or unit object specifying y-location.
width
A numeric vector or unit object specifying width.
height
A numeric vector or unit object specifying height.
default.units
A string indicating the default units to use if x, y, width, or height are only given as numeric vectors.
just
A string or numeric vector specifying the justification of the viewport relative to its (x, y) location. If there are two values, the first value specifies horizontal justification and the second value specifies vertical justification. Possible string values are: "left", "right", "centre", "center", "bottom", and "top". For numeric values, 0 means left alignment and 1 means right alignment.
gp
An object of class gpar, typically the output from a call to the function gpar. This is basically a list of graphical parameter settings.
clip
One of "on", "inherit", or "off", indicating whether to clip to the extent of this viewport, inherit the clipping region from the parent viewport, or turn clipping off altogether. For back-compatibility, a logical value of TRUE corresponds to "on" and FALSE corresponds to "inherit".
xscale
A numeric vector of length two indicating the minimum and maximum on the x-scale. The limits may not be identical.
yscale
A numeric vector of length two indicating the minimum and maximum on the y-scale. The limits may not be identical.
angle
A numeric value indicating the angle of rotation of the viewport. Positive values indicate the amount of rotation, in degrees, anticlockwise from the positive x-axis.
layout
A Grid layout object which splits the viewport into subregions.
layout.pos.row
A numeric vector giving the rows occupied by this viewport in its parent's layout.
layout.pos.col
A numeric vector giving the columns occupied by this viewport in its parent's layout.
name
A character value to uniquely identify the viewport once it has been pushed onto the viewport tree.
...
Any number of grid viewport objects.
parent
A grid viewport object.
children
A vpList object.

Value

An R object of class viewport.

Details

The location and size of a viewport are relative to the coordinate systems defined by the viewport's parent (either a graphical device or another viewport). The location and size can be specified in a very flexible way by specifying them with unit objects. When specifying the location of a viewport, specifying both layout.pos.row and layout.pos.col as NULL indicates that the viewport ignores its parent's layout and specifies its own location and size (via its locn). If only one of layout.pos.row and layout.pos.col is NULL, this means occupy ALL of the appropriate row(s)/column(s). For example, layout.pos.row = 1 and layout.pos.col = NULL means occupy all of row 1. Specifying non-NULL values for both layout.pos.row and layout.pos.col means occupy the intersection of the appropriate rows and columns. If a vector of length two is specified for layout.pos.row or layout.pos.col, this indicates a range of rows or columns to occupy. For example, layout.pos.row = c(1, 3) and layout.pos.col = c(2, 4) means occupy cells in the intersection of rows 1, 2, and 3, and columns, 2, 3, and 4. Clipping obeys only the most recent viewport clip setting. For example, if you clip to viewport1, then clip to viewport2, the clipping region is determined wholly by viewport2, the size and shape of viewport1 is irrelevant (until viewport2 is popped of course). If a viewport is rotated (because of its own angle setting or because it is within another viewport which is rotated) then the clip flag is ignored. Viewport names need not be unique. When pushed, viewports sharing the same parent must have unique names, which means that if you push a viewport with the same name as an existing viewport, the existing viewport will be replaced in the viewport tree. A viewport name can be any string, but grid uses the reserved name "ROOT" for the top-level viewport. Also, when specifying a viewport name in downViewport and seekViewport, it is possible to provide a viewport path, which consists of several names concatenated using the separator (currently ::). Consequently, it is not advisable to use this separator in viewport names. The viewports in a vpList are pushed in parallel. The viewports in a vpStack are pushed in series. When a vpTree is pushed, the parent is pushed first, then the children are pushed in parallel.

See Also

Grid, pushViewport, popViewport, downViewport, seekViewport, upViewport, unit, grid.layout, grid.show.layout.

Examples

Run this code
# Diagram of a sample viewport
grid.show.viewport(viewport(x=0.6, y=0.6,
                   w=unit(1, "inches"), h=unit(1, "inches")))
# Demonstrate viewport clipping
clip.demo <- function(i, j, clip1, clip2) {
  pushViewport(viewport(layout.pos.col=i,
                         layout.pos.row=j))
  pushViewport(viewport(width=0.6, height=0.6, clip=clip1))
  grid.rect(gp=gpar(fill="white"))
  grid.circle(r=0.55, gp=gpar(col="red", fill="pink"))
  popViewport()
  pushViewport(viewport(width=0.6, height=0.6, clip=clip2))
  grid.polygon(x=c(0.5, 1.1, 0.6, 1.1, 0.5, -0.1, 0.4, -0.1),
               y=c(0.6, 1.1, 0.5, -0.1, 0.4, -0.1, 0.5, 1.1),
               gp=gpar(col="blue", fill="light blue"))
  popViewport(2)
}

grid.newpage()
grid.rect(gp=gpar(fill="grey"))
pushViewport(viewport(layout=grid.layout(2, 2)))
clip.demo(1, 1, FALSE, FALSE)
clip.demo(1, 2, TRUE, FALSE)
clip.demo(2, 1, FALSE, TRUE)
clip.demo(2, 2, TRUE, TRUE)
popViewport()
# Demonstrate turning clipping off
grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport(w=.5, h=.5, clip="on"))
grid.rect()
grid.circle(r=.6, gp=gpar(lwd=10))
pushViewport(viewport(clip="inherit"))
grid.circle(r=.6, gp=gpar(lwd=5, col="grey"))
pushViewport(viewport(clip="off"))
grid.circle(r=.6)
popViewport(3)
# Demonstrate vpList, vpStack, and vpTree
grid.newpage()
tree <- vpTree(viewport(w=0.8, h=0.8, name="A"),
               vpList(vpStack(viewport(x=0.1, y=0.1, w=0.5, h=0.5,
                                       just=c("left", "bottom"), name="B"),
                              viewport(x=0.1, y=0.1, w=0.5, h=0.5,
                                       just=c("left", "bottom"), name="C"),
                              viewport(x=0.1, y=0.1, w=0.5, h=0.5,
                                       just=c("left", "bottom"), name="D")),
                      viewport(x=0.5, w=0.4, h=0.9,
                               just="left", name="E")))
pushViewport(tree)
for (i in LETTERS[1:5]) {
  seekViewport(i)
  grid.rect()
  grid.text(current.vpTree(FALSE),
            x=unit(1, "mm"), y=unit(1, "npc") - unit(1, "mm"),
            just=c("left", "top"),
            gp=gpar(fontsize=8))
}

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