Thank you Paul, Marc, and Ray for helping. Alas: there seems to be no way to test for a new page. In my simple case it is no big problem since I can just count the number of plots made on the page so far.
Ray: yes I could probably write the header after every plot, effectively writing on top of old header (which in my case has both text and a legend). I was just looking for a neater way... Thank you all! Aleksey put the same header on each page On Tuesday 11 November 2003 06:27 pm, Ray Brownrigg wrote: > Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:49, Paul Murrell wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Aleksey Naumov wrote: > > > > Dear R experts, > > > > > > > > I am writing a multi-page PDF file and would like to put a header on > > > > each page. Is there a way to test a graphic device to see if a new > > > > page is started (so that I know when to write the header)? > > > > > > Sorry. Not that I can think of. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > I could simply count the plots made (each page has the same number of > > > > plots), but wanted to see if a more general solution is available. > > > > I was trying to think of a way but could not either. > > It's not clear what you want as the "header", but if it is the same on > each page, then using mtext("Header", outer=TRUE) (after a suitable > par(oma=c(0, 0, 1, 0))), you can just write the header after every plot. > > Ray -- Aleksey Naumov GIS Analyst Center for Health and Social Research Buffalo State College ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help