[R] behaviour of plot(...,type="l")

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have a problem that I guess may be related, it haven't really bothered
> me too much, so I thought it is just me, but it is a bit strange, and
> while we're talking about it: 
> 
> I have 
> > par()$type
> [1] "p"
> and, if I do 
> > plot(1:5)
> I get a plot with points, so far so good. Then, I go 
> > par(type="l")
> > plot(1:5)
> but it's still points. It should have been a line, shouldn't it?
> > plot(1:5, type="l")
> gives a line, and 
> > par("type")
> [1] "l"
> (ahem, yes, I re-RTFM at this point)

plot.default() has an argument type=, so it *always* resets the plotting
type. If you don't specify that argument it resets it to the default, "p".

It could be changed to default to par("type") but I don't see when this
would be helpful.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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