[R] PostScript output error

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Sep 9 19:17:56 CEST 1999


On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Mitsuru Oka wrote:

> 
> At 09 Sep 1999 14:41:59 +0200,
> Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> > 
> > Mitsuru Oka <oka at debian.or.jp> writes:
> > 
> > > By the way, what is difference between mfrow and mfcol?
> > 
> > 1  2       1  3
> >       vs.
> > 3  4       2  4
> 
> 
> At Thu, 9 Sep 1999 14:23:50 +0100,
> Paul Murrell <pm254 at medschl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > >By the way, what is difference between mfrow and mfcol?
> > 
> > with mfrow the plots are "numbered" across rows and with mfcol they are down
> > the columns.  this is in the help for "par", but perhaps it is not clear.
> > the best way to see the difference is with an example ...
> > 
> > mfrow=c(3,2) gives six plots like this ...
> > 
> > 1  2
> > 3  4
> > 5  6
> > 
> > mfcol=c(3,2) gives six plots like this ...
> > 
> > 1  4
> > 2  5
> > 3  6
> 
> Thanks for your lots of kinds!
> 
> My english is broken may be, and not so clear to
> understand online-help well. But your answers
> are very clear.

We've altered par(mfg=) for the next release so you will get sensible
error messages. We also found par("mfg") was broken.... 

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