[Rd] suggest enhancement to segments and arrows to facilitate horizontal and vertical segments

Tim Hesterberg timhesterberg at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 17:22:34 CEST 2009


I suggest a simple enhancement to segments() and arrows() to
facilitate drawing horizontal and vertical segments --
set default values for the second x and y arguments equal to the first set.
This is handy, especially when the expressions for coordinates are long.

Compare:

Segments:
< function (x0, y0, x1 = x0, y1 = y0, col = par("fg"), lty = par("lty"),
---
> function (x0, y0, x1, y1, col = par("fg"), lty = par("lty"),

Arrows:
< function (x0, y0, x1 = x0, y1 = y0, length = 0.25, angle = 30, code = 2,
---
> function (x0, y0, x1, y1, length = 0.25, angle = 30, code = 2,

Tim Hesterberg



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