[Rd] "plot.ts" doesn't respect the value of "pch" (+ blocked from Bugzilla signups)
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Aug 25 11:34:37 CEST 2016
>>>>> David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>
>>>>> on Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:04 -0700 writes:
>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 5:59 PM, Gregory Werbin <greg.werbin at libertymail.net> wrote:
>>
>> I did a search on Bugzilla for "plot.ts" and didn't find anything on this issue. I tried to sign up for Bugzilla to report it, but my e-mail address didn't pass your "syntax checking" for a legal e-mail address.
If you read (and you should :-)
https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html
you will see the reason for the "syntax checking".
We currently need manual white listing (of e-mail addresses),
because we had months of "spam" bug reports and then complete
spam explosion aka "bug site devastation" action.
I have added your e-mail (above) to be valid / legal...
Please "subscribe", because we will not keep that changed string for so long.
[ Actually, I'd tend to say that for short term, we are now
looking for volunteers for "bugzilla moderation".... ]
>>
>> The bug is easily reproducible on my machine as follows:
>>
>> ## start
>>
>> # generate some data
>> y <- arima.sim(list(), 150)
>>
>> # this will definitely dispatch to a ".ts" method
>> class(y)[1] == 'ts'
>>
>> # compare and note that `cex = 0.5` has no effect
>> plot(y, type = 'b', pch = 16)
>> plot(y, type = 'b', pch = 16, cex = 0.5)
>>
>> # it works if `y` is coerced back to a regular vector
>> plot(as.numeric(y), type = 'b', pch = 16, cex = 0.5)
>>
>> # another way to see the issue
>> plot.ts(y, type = 'b', pch = 16, cex = 0.5)
>> plot.default(y, type = 'b', pch = 16, cex = 0.5)
>>
>> ## end
>>
>> Skimming through source code for `plot.ts`, it seems like the `cex` argument is being "eaten" by a `...` somewhere without being properly passed to `plot.default`.
> '...' does not "eat" parameters, it passes them on.
> Looking at the very top of the body we see this in the definition of the internal `plotts` function:
> cex = par("cex"), lty = par("lty"), lwd = par("lwd"),
> axes = TRUE, frame.plot = axes, ann = par("ann"), cex.lab = par("cex.lab"),
> col.lab = par("col.lab"), font.lab = par("font.lab"),
> cex.axis = par("cex.axis"), col.axis = par("col.axis"),
> And at the end of the body we se the call to plotts (including the "dots")
> So I would suggest using par-settings.
> par(cex=0.5)
> plot(y, type = 'b', pch = 16)
as a workaround, yes, thank you David!
> (Question seems more appropriate for r-help.)
Still, I would tend to think that it was reasonable feature
request to ask for plot.ts() to be improved there, and then
R-devel or the R-bugzilla would be ok, too.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> --
> David.
>>
>> The output of `R.version` is:
>> platform x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0
>> arch x86_64
>> os darwin15.5.0
>> system x86_64, darwin15.5.0
>> status
>> major 3
>> minor 3.1
>> year 2016
>> month 06
>> day 21
>> svn rev 70800
>> language R
>> version.string R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
>> nickname Bug in Your Hair
>>
>> Greg
>>
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> David Winsemius
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