# How to unfold plots
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, plotting
**Created:** [November 9, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196 "2021-11-09T09:38:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@corny85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/corny85)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/1 "2021-11-09T09:38:07Z")
Hello,
I want to unfold a vector of plots but i don’t know how to do it.
```julia
using Plots
p = [plot(a[i][1:end,2],a[i][1:end,1]) for i =1:5]
plot(p)
```
It doesn’t work.
Thanks for your help
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/2 "2021-11-09T12:10:37Z")
What does “unfold” mean? Can you make a minimum working example showing what isn’t working and what your desired outcome is?
Incidentally, you don’t nee to do `a[i][1:end, 2]`, this is equivalent to just `a[i][:, 2]`.
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### Author:  [@yha](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yha)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/3 "2021-11-09T12:19:30Z")
Do you mean you want to pass each plot in `p` as a separate argument to `plot`? This is done with the “splat” operator `...`, e.g.
```julia
using Plots
p = [plot(rand(5), rand(5)) for _=1:5]
plot(p...)
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/4 "2021-11-09T13:32:18Z")
Would you know why broadcasting does not work? I.e., `plot.(p)`
Actually the following works but with the different plots displaying one after the other in the same window: `@. display(plot(p))`. Nevermind.
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/5 "2021-11-09T15:18:07Z")
Broadcasting a function over multiple arguments is not the same as calling a function with multiple arguments:
```julia
plot.(plot_array) == for p in plot_array; plot(p); end
```
while
```julia
plot(plot_array...) == plot(plot_array[1], plot_array[2], ..., plot_array[end])
```
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### Author:  [@corny85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/corny85)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/6 "2021-11-09T15:24:15Z")
plot(p…) is working !
Thanks 🙂
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-unfold-plots/71196/7 "2021-11-09T16:24:55Z")
Actually I realise I answered a very similar question on StackOverflow not too long ago:
[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68913349/how-can-i-get-multiple-histogram-plots-from-a-dataframe-in-julia/68914287#68914287](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68913349/how-can-i-get-multiple-histogram-plots-from-a-dataframe-in-julia/68914287#68914287)