[R] par() function does not work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Did you start R with --vanilla to check that this is not something you 
have done?  It is good practice, and I suspect will show you that you have 
mis-diagosed this problem.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Fabio Sanchez wrote:

> Dear R-nautes,
>
> I installed the 2.7.1 version of R and found it is not possible to modify
> graphical parameters with par().
>
> for example;
>
>> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
> Error in c(2, 2) : unused argument(s) (2)

That error is not from par() but from c().  I suspect you have defined a 
function c() in your workspace that is breaking your code.

>> par$mfrow
> NULL

That is not supposed to work.  Perhaps you meant par()$mfrow?


> Does any one know what is the cause of this problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fabio
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> Fabio S?nchez, MD, MSc, PhD
> Unit of Dermatology and Venereology
> Department of Medicine
> Karolinska Institute
> SE-17176 Karolinska University Hospital
> Phone: +46 8 51772158
> Fax: +46 8 51773620
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