Removing one tableGrob when applied to a box plot with a facet_wrap

It would probably make sense to let annotation_custom access facetting info *; this trivial change seems to do the trick,

library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
library(gridExtra)

annotation_custom2 <- 
function (grob, xmin = -Inf, xmax = Inf, ymin = -Inf, ymax = Inf, data) 
{
  layer(data = data, stat = StatIdentity, position = PositionIdentity, 
        geom = ggplot2:::GeomCustomAnn,
        inherit.aes = TRUE, params = list(grob = grob, 
                                          xmin = xmin, xmax = xmax, 
                                          ymin = ymin, ymax = ymax))
}

p <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_point(aes(mpg, wt)) + facet_wrap(~ cyl)


tg <- tableGrob(iris[1:2,1:2], rows=NULL)
# position the table within the annotation area
tg$vp=viewport(x=unit(0,"npc") + 0.5*sum(tg$widths),
               y=unit(0,"npc") + 0.5*sum(tg$heights))
# need to wrap in a gTree since annotation_custom overwrites the vp
g <- grobTree(tg)
p + annotation_custom2(g, data=data.frame(cyl=8))

Edit * hadley has a different view though, annotation is designed to appear in all panels. It’s not clear to me how to produce the geom equivalent for this particular case, if possible.
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