From dgrove at fhcrc.org  Tue Jul 18 18:19:16 2006
From: dgrove at fhcrc.org (Douglas Grove)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:19:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)
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The reason I noticed this is that I do not know how
the screens are numbered.

And for future reference, is there a source that documents
how to create a patch for documentation or source code?
I have never made a patch but I would like to be able
to do this in the future.

Thanks,
Doug 




On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Patch, please ....
> 
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, dgrove at fhcrc.org wrote:
> 
> > Full_Name: Doug Grove
> > Version: 2.3.1 patched  (2006-07-03 r38485)
> > OS: Windows
> > Submission from: (NULL) (24.19.37.159)
> > 
> > 
> > A msg. to R-help prompted me to read the help page for split.screen/screen,
> > etc.
> > I understand what the function is for, but could not find information that
> > described how the argument 'n' in screen/erase.screen/close.screen is mapped to
> > the regions on the device.  All we are told is e.g. screen(1) prepares the first
> > region for plotting - but which region is region 1??  Obviously this can be
> > figured out by playing around with the function, but a description of how the
> > regions are numbered would make a nice addition.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Doug
> > 
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> > 
> 
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[Rd] documentation for argument to screen (PR#9085)
Douglas Grove