From guy.lionel at gmail.com  Thu Jul 25 16:06:18 2013
From: guy.lionel at gmail.com (Lionel Guy)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:06:18 +0200
Subject: [genoPlotR-help] genoPlotR
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Hi Paul, 

Thanks for your interest in genoPlotR. I see you're working in Peer Bork's group, was genoPlotR pointed to you by Jens? He is an author of genoPlotR, and a former student of mine. In any case say hi to him!

I am currently on vacation and don't much have time to investigate the matter very far. I'll come back to you with a more complete answer (if need be) in August when I'm back at my desk. In short and from the top of my head, it's not very easily done, although it is on my todo list. The way I implemented it, grobs are plotted one after the other, they are not all gathered and then plotted in one go. It shouldn't be too hard to hack the code to save some of the grobs at some point, though. You can try and ask Jens, he might remember how things are organized in my code. 

About viewports, I recommend consulting Paul Murray's excellent book, R Graphics.

Let me know if that helps you! 

Best,

Lionel

On 25 Jul 2013, at 12:09 , Paul Costea <costea at embl.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to plot some linear alignments alongside the coverage details. I've managed to get the alignment plots, but i would like to have them as grobs that i can then arrange in a different layout with different ggplots. Is that doable? The Viewport approach confused me.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Paul
> 
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