[R] using split.screen?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Bill Shipley wrote:

> Hello.  I am having trouble understanding the use of split.screen.  I want
> to divide the device surface first into 4 equal screens:
> split.screen(figs=c(2,2))
>  
> This works.
>  
> I next want to subdivide each of these 4 screens into 10 subscreens.  I do,
> for the first of these 4 screens:
>  
> screen(1,new=T)
> and then: split.screen(figs=c(10,2))
>  
> My understanding is that this should split screen 1 (i.e. top right) 

That is screen 2: 1 is top left.

> into 10
> screens within its area.  However, this does not work and I get the
> following error message: Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large

well, only when you try to plot on one of those screens.

> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? 

I suspect not using a big enough device region to allow such small plot 
regions.  You are asking for 20 rows in your device region.

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