[R] plot() axis problem

[Bill Simpson]

> 
> The example uses a rather artificial dataset, neatly divided into
> monotonically increasing low and high values.  Any permutation of those
> values that did not fall into that pattern would render the question
> meaningless.  For example, try
The example I posted was artificial because my real example had 10,000
pts and I didn't want to post that. Basically I wanted to look at the
region surrounding one frequency of the spectrum where I expected a peak.
I couldn't see the peak because plot() had used the whole set of data to
pick the range for the y-axis.

There was of course a nice peak but it was invisible because this peak was
maybe 1/1000 as high as the maximum peak in the whole spectrum.

> 
> I think the present behavior of plot() is pretty sensible.
If you look around at other plotting programs out there I think you'll see
some doing what I propose. I think if you use small datasets the current
plot() behaviour will not cause problems. It's only a pain once you start
zooming in on small stretches.

Bill

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