[R] mfrow is ignored by some plots

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Thu Jul 19 13:06:17 CEST 2007


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I'd ask the plotrix maintainer to fix his code!
> 
> radial.plot saves and restores all the par() values, including mfrow and 
> mfg. When you do par(mfrow=c(2,2)) the plot position is reset to the 
> bottom right, and the next plot will advance to the top left (but 
> par(new=TRUE) negates that).
> 
> Please restore only the par values you have changed, not all the 
> no.readonly ones.  That values can be set does not make it a good idea 
> to do so.
> 
Thank you Prof. Ripley, an erudite and functional answer as usual.

Jim



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