grid.frame               package:grid               R Documentation

Create a Frame for Packing Objects

Description:

     These functions, together with 'grid.pack', 'grid.place',
     'packGrob', and 'placeGrob' are part of a GUI-builder-like
     interface to constructing graphical images. The idea is that you
     create a frame with this function then use 'grid.pack' or whatever
     to pack/place objects into the frame.

Usage:

     grid.frame(layout=NULL, name=NULL, gp=gpar(), vp=NULL, draw=TRUE)
     frameGrob(layout=NULL, name=NULL, gp=gpar(), vp=NULL)

Arguments:

  layout: A Grid layout, or NULL. This can be used to initialise the
          frame with a number of rows and columns, with initial widths
          and heights, etc. 

    name: A character identifier. 

      vp: An object of class 'viewport', or NULL. 

      gp: An object of class 'gpar';  typically the output from a call
          to the function 'gpar'.

    draw: Should the frame be drawn.  

Details:

     Both functions create a frame grob (a graphical object describing
     a frame), but only 'grid.frame()' draws the frame (and then only
     if 'draw' is 'TRUE'). Nothing will actually be drawn, but it will
     put the frame on the display list, which means that the output
     will be dynamically updated as objects are packed into the frame. 
     Possibly useful for debugging.

Value:

     A frame grob.  'grid.frame()' returns the value invisibly.

Author(s):

     Paul Murrell

See Also:

     'grid.pack'

Examples:

     grid.newpage()
     grid.frame(name="gf", draw=TRUE)
     grid.pack("gf", rectGrob(gp=gpar(fill="grey")))
     grid.pack("gf", textGrob("hi there"), side="right")

