[Rd] plot.lm mislabels points with na.exclude (PR#3750)

[andy_liaw at merck.com]

> From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch] 
> 
> >>>>> "AndyL" == andy liaw <andy_liaw at merck.com>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 04:08:59 +0200 (MET DST) writes:
> 
>     AndyL> Here's one possible fix (may not be very efficient).
>     AndyL> Change lines 82-83 in $R_HOME/src/base/R/plot.lm.R 
> to the following:
> 
>     AndyL> if (id.n > 0) {
>     AndyL>  qqx <- rep(NA, n)
>     AndyL>  qqy <- rep(NA, n)
>     AndyL>  qqx[!is.na(rs)] <- qq$x
>     AndyL>  qqy[!is.na(rs)] <- qq$y
>     AndyL>  text.id(qqx[show.rs], qqy[show.rs], show.rs, adj.x = TRUE)
>     AndyL> }
> 
> Thank you, Andy.
> 
> I digged a bit further, however.
> I'd argue the bug is in  qqnorm(): It shouldn't drop NA's in 
> its result, list(x= ., y=.).
> 
> R-devel will contain a fixed  qqnorm.default() function
> which will also solve this plot.lm() behavior.

I completely agree.  ?qqnorm does not say what it does with NAs.  Maybe it
should?

Best,
Andy


 
> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>	
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    >> -----Original Message-----
    >> From: richard_raubertas at merck.com 
    >> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:38 PM
    >> To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
    >> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
    >> Subject: [Rd] plot.lm mislabels points with na.exclude (PR#3750)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> R 1.7.1 on Windows XP
    >> 
    >> The "normal Q-Q plot" produced by plot.lm() mislabels points 
    >> when the model is fitted using na.action=na.exclude.  Example:
    >> 
    >> x <- 1:50
    >> y <- x + rnorm(50)
    >> y[c(5,10,15)] <- NA   # insert some NA's
    >> y[40] <- 50  # add an outlier
    >> plot(lm(y ~ x, na.action=na.omit))  # outlier correctly 
    >> labeled in all 
    >> # four plots
    >> plot(lm(y ~ x, na.action=na.exclude)) # labels attached to 
    >> wrong points
    >> # in the QQ plot (only)
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Rich Raubertas
    >> Biometrics Research
    >> Merck & Co.

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