Compute Default mfrow From Number of Plots

Description

Easy setup for plotting multiple figures (in a rectangular layout) on one page. This computes a sensible default for par(mfrow).

Usage

n2mfrow(nr.plots)

Arguments

Value

A length two integer vector nr, nc giving the number of rows and columns, fulfilling nr >= nc >= 1 and nr * nc >= nr.plots.

Author(s)

Martin Maechler

See Also

par, layout.

Examples

require(graphics)

n2mfrow(8) # 3 x 3

n <- 5 ; x <- seq(-2, 2, len = 51)
## suppose now that 'n' is not known {inside function}
op <- par(mfrow = n2mfrow(n))
for (j in 1:n)
   plot(x, x^j, main = substitute(x^ exp, list(exp = j)), type = "l",
   col = "blue")

sapply(1:10, n2mfrow)