[Rd] par(mfrow = ) resets par('cex'), not reduces it (PR#13373)
cmr.pent at gmail.com
cmr.pent at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 15:40:11 CET 2008
help(par) says:
'mfcol, mfrow' ...
In a layout with exactly two rows and columns the base value of
'"cex"' is reduced by a factor of 0.83: if there are three or more
of either rows or columns, the reduction factor is 0.66.
In reality, par(mfrow =) *resets* par ('cex'), not reduces it as
documented. To reproduce:
par(cex = 0.5)
par(mfrow = c(2, 2))
print(par('cex'))
It outputs 0.83, not 0.415 as expected.
Particularly such a behavior makes plot.ts and plot.acf effectively
ignore par('cex') value for the multivariate case. I guess there are
more situations where the documented behavior would be more
appropriate.
I'm ready to provide any additional info,
Andrey
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Version:
platform = i486-pc-linux-gnu
arch = i486
os = linux-gnu
system = i486, linux-gnu
status =
major = 2
minor = 8.0
year = 2008
month = 10
day = 20
svn rev = 46754
language = R
version.string = R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
Locale:
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=ru_RU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
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package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads,
package:base
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