Thank you Yousri
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:12 PM Paul Murrell <p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > Hi > > This behaviour is as expected. > > The layout.show() function is just there to help visualise what the > layout will look like. > > So for testing purposes, you would do something like ... > > layout(...) > layout.show(n) > > Then to actually use the layout, you would do something like ... > > layout(...) > plot(...) > plot(...) > plot(...) > > Paul > > On 30/04/20 1:09 am, Yousri Fanous wrote: > > This works as expected: Histograms 1-3 are displayed on the first row and > > histograms 4 and 5 on the second row > > > > However when I use layout.show to check the layout , it appears that > > layout.show(3) consumes the first 3 locations > > > >> layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,2,3,3,0,4,4,5,5,0),2,6,byrow=T),respect=F) > >> layout.show(3) > >> hist(sample[,1],main="Hist for sample I",xlab="sample 1",ylab="freq") > >> hist(sample[,2],main="Hist for sample II",xlab="sample 2",ylab="freq") > >> hist(sample[,3],main="Hist for sample III",xlab="sample 3",ylab="freq") > >> hist(sample[,4],main="Hist for sample IV",xlab="sample 4",ylab="freq") > >> hist(sample[,5],main="Hist for sample V",xlab="sample 5",ylab="freq") > > Now the first row shows 3 empty rectangles and histogram 1 and 2 are > > displayed on row 2 while histograms 3-5 are displayed on the top row in a > > different graph / page > > > > If I use layout.show(5) then each histogram is displayed on a separate > > sheet as if the layout was fully consumed > > > > Few questions here: > > 1) in case of layout.show(3) why the layout was still remembered / > recycled > > 2) with layout.show(5) why was the layout totally dismissed. I expected > at > > least it would restart over with 3 graphs in first row and 2 graphs in > > second row to be consistent in behavior with layout.show(3) > > 3) layout.show(x) purpose is to check if my layout is correct. It must > not > > leave any side effect on the main plots. > > From the help of function layout this line relates to layout.show > > > > layout.show(n) plots (part of) the current layout, namely the outlines of > > the next n figures. > > > > It does not describe the behavior I am seeing > > > > 4) Finally is there a way to undo the effect of layout.show except > re-enter > > my layout again? > > > > Yousri > > -- > Dr Paul Murrell > Department of Statistics > The University of Auckland > Private Bag 92019 > Auckland > New Zealand > 64 9 3737599 x85392 > p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
