[Rd] automatically adding smooth to plot: options("plot.add.smooth")

[Paul Gilbert]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 9/19/2005 10:01 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> Martin Maechler wrote:
>>
>>> I've changed the subject in the hope some more people would
>>> voice an opinion...
>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Now I even propose to have
>>>           options(add.smooth = TRUE)
>>>
>>> as a new default.....
>>>
>>> Do I get a reaction now?
>>> Martin
>>
>>
>> I think you may break a lot of things if you make this the default for 
>> plot. Plot gets used by other things (like matplot) where this default 
>> may not make much sense. (But I may have missed too much of the 
>> earlier discussion under some other subject.)
> 
> 
> This was going to affect only plot.lm, as far as I know.

 From the earlier discussion I thought so, but it was not really clear 
in the new subject line.

Paul
> 
> Duncan Murdoch