[R] figs parameter for split.screen()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Rodrigo Tsai wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would be pleased if anyone could help me.
>
> The Rhelp description for the figs parameter is "a two-element vector
> describing
> the number of rows and colunns in a screen matrix".
>
> So, why does my code (below) produce a 2x1 screen matrix instead of
> a 1x2 one?

Does it? There is no way we can reproduce it as it is incomplete, but

split.screen(figs=c(1,2))
screen(1)
plot(1:2)
screen(2)
plot(10:1)

does produce a 1x2 layout.

Perhaps your error is call plot.new() in a subdivided layout: it makes no 
sense to select a screen and then move to the next frame.

>
> Thanks in advance,
> rodrigo.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> plot.new()
>
> split.screen(figs=c(1,2))
>
>
>
> screen(1)
>
> plot.new()
>
> plot(v16[vd==0], vdep[vd==0], bg="aliceblue", cex= 0.5,
> xlab="Age",ylab="AvWei", main="", ylim=c(x1,xn), cex.lab=1.1)
>
> title(main = "Female", cex.main = 1.1 , font.main = 1, col.main = "black")
>
>
>
> screen(2)
>
> plot.new()
>
> plot(v16[vd==1], vdep[vd==1], bg="aliceblue", cex= 0.5,
> xlab="Age",ylab="AvWei", main="", ylim=c(x1,xn), cex.lab=1.1)
>
> title(main = "Male", cex.main = 1.1 , font.main = 1, col.main = "black")
>
> *-----------------------------------------------------------  *
>
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