[Rd] plot(1:10,c(1)$nothing) yields index plot (PR#482)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Thomas Lumley <thomas@biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> This turns out to be a bad idea, because we must be able to call plot(x)
> from other functions (with arbitrarily deep nesting), and it becomes very
> messy to trick plot() into handling the arguments correctly as they are
> passed from one function to another. 

Actually, S-plus has that problem, not R:

> f<-function(x,y)g(x,y)
> g<-function(x,y)missing(y)
> f(2)
[1] F

where R propagates missings just fine:

> f<-function(x,y)g(x,y)
> g<-function(x,y)missing(y)
> f(2)
[1] TRUE

but given the amount of ported code we have to deal with, we probably
have to be able to deal with NULLs being passed to signify absent
arguments. 

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