[R] plot() axis problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Bill Simpson wrote:

> >
> > 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.

Oh, come on, many of us use *much* larger datasets.  Your problem is that
you are using xlim to zoom in, rather that subsetting the spectrum
object as the S language design intends (but the writer of plot.spec did
not anticpate).

You can of course set ylim as well as xlim ....

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