Multiple lattice plots with gridExtra

Question

There is very convenient way of plotting multiple graphs and that's with gridExtra - grid.arrange:

grid.arrange(plot1,plot2,plot3,plot4,plot5,plot6,plot7,plot8,plot9, ncol=3)

The above command draws 3x3 graphs in one window.

Now, I'm using my own lattice setup to draw unique lines etc. via

trellis.par.set(my.setup)

However using the grid.arrange command for plotting multiple plots won't pass on the setup as the output plots are in default colours.

So the question is how to pass on the my.setup onto grid.arrange or alternatively how to plot easily multiple graphs in one go for lattice.

EDIT: Reproducible example:

Data <- data.frame(Col1=rnorm(10,0,1),Col2=rexp(10,2),Col3=rnorm(10,2,2),Col4=runif(10,0,2), 
       Time=seq(1,10,1))

trellis.par.set(col.whitebg()) 
newSet <- col.whitebg() 
newSet$superpose.symbol$col <- c("blue3","orange2","gray1","tomato3")
newSet$superpose.symbol$pch <- 1
newSet$superpose.symbol$cex <- 1
newSet$superpose.line$col <- c("blue3","orange2","gray1","tomato3")
trellis.par.set(newSet)

Plot1 <- xyplot(Col1+Col2~Time, Data, type="spline")
Plot2 <- xyplot(Col2+Col3~Time, Data, type="spline")
Plot3 <- xyplot(Col1+Col3~Time, Data, type="spline")
Plot4 <- xyplot(Col3+Col4~Time, Data, type="spline")

grid.arrange(Plot1,Plot2,Plot3,Plot4, ncol=2)

Answer 1

I guess it's got something to do with the plot.trellis method not finding the global theme settings when it's wrapped in gridExtra::drawDetails.lattice. I don't understand these lattice options, but as far as I recall you can specify them explicitly at the plot level too,

pl = list(Plot1, Plot2, Plot3, Plot4)
# do.call(grid.arrange, c(pl, nrow=1))
do.call(grid.arrange, c(lapply(pl, update, par.settings=newSet), list(nrow=1)))