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wafflecat
wafflecat

Reputation: 557

What does mfrow & mfcol stand for in par()?

As the title says. I ask because understanding what the abbreviation stands for helps me remember it and I'm really struggling with this parameter.

If the answer is unintuitive, can you also explain how you rationalize it?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 15382

Answers (5)

Cai Rendong
Cai Rendong

Reputation: 1

My understanding is : mfrow == matrix filled by row; mfcols == matrix filled by column.

Upvotes: 0

user6698048
user6698048

Reputation: 11

I've wondered about this myself. "multi-frame" and "multiple-figures" make all kind of sense.

In the absence of the "right" answer, I came up with the mnemonic "me first" (by) rows and by columns. Certainly wrong, but I always remember what they do!

Upvotes: 1

Christopher Maronga
Christopher Maronga

Reputation: 81

mfrow simply stands for "MultiFrame rowwise layout". The other one is pretty obvious now: mfcol stands for MultiFrame columnwise layout.

Upvotes: 8

IRTFM
IRTFM

Reputation: 263451

I'm guessing here, and my guess is that it might be "matrix-frame". The parameters set up the row and column dimensions of the graphical device. "mfrow" might be thought of as matrix-frame-by-row, since the two parameters have The "mfg" parameter might be thought of as matrix-frame-get, since it addresses a location in matrix-like conceptual arrangement of device splits set up by the last call to par with either "mfcol" or "mfrow".

I suppose another hypothesis might be "-_m_ultiple-_f_igures". Still guessing after an attempt at searching with Google and MarkMail in Rhelp.

Upvotes: 4

baptiste
baptiste

Reputation: 77116

Paul Murrell has listed some helpful mnemonics; the interpretation might be

 mfrow: number of Multiple Figures (use ROW-wise).

Upvotes: 17

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