[Rd] bug in plot.acf (PR#8705)

[murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]

(Moved from r-devel to r-bugs)

On 3/24/2006 5:03 AM, Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote:
> Hi all.
> There's a bug in plot.acf, when plotting acf for multivariate time series.
> Here a reproducible example:
> 
> X <- rnorm(1000)
> Y <- -X + rnorm(1000, sd=0.6)
> Z <- cbind(X,Y)
> 
> In
> acf(Z)
> cross-correlation plot y-axis is limited to 0-1. But:
> acf(Z, ylim=c(-1,1))
> shows that there was a negative correlation, that was cut away in the
> previous plot.
> 
> I've seen the error is trivial. There's something like:
> 
> for(each pair of univariate time series) {
> if(is.null(ylim)) {
> ...#set ylim properly
> }
> ...
> }
> 
> in plot.acf code, so that in the first iteration the ylim par is properly
> set to about c(0,1), but in
> subsequent interations, ylim is no more NULL, and the old, unproper ylim
> specification
> remains.

Thanks for noticing this.  It's easy to fix, but before I do, I'd like 
an opinion on the proper fix.  Should all the plots use the same ylim, 
or in the case where it is unspecified, should they each choose their 
own?  I can see arguments for both possibilities.

Duncan Murdoch


> 
> Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo.
> 
> P.S. Sorry for not indicating exact source lines, but from this PC I don't
> have access to
> R sources...
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