[R] plot() axis problem

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Bill Simpson wrote:

> >
> > 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).
>
> OK Brian and Peter point taken that S/R prefers that I do
> plot(x[x>=1 & x<=10],y[x>=1 & x<=10])
> rather than
> plot(x,y,xlim=xrange)
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> (I am using my own spectrum routines)
>
> > You can of course set ylim as well as xlim ....
>
> Yes that's what I said in my original posting.

(Too many days ago for me to have at hand.)   My point was that if you
want to `zoom in' then it seems logical to have to specify the zoom in
both x and y directions, not expect the x zoom to choose a y zoom.

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