[R] How to change par globally?

[apjaworski@mmm.com]

I have a feeling that this is a simple one, but I cannot figure it out.

I want to change the default plotting character for all my plots to pch=20
(small filled circle).  I thought that putting par("pch"=20) in my Rprofile
would do it, but it only seems to work for a single invocation of a
graphical device, that is if I start a second device (windows() in my case)
the plotting symbol reverts to 1 (large hollow circles).

The only thing that works for me is redefinition of plot.default and
points.default functions.  I just typed, say, plot.default in an R console,
copied the definition and pasted it into Rprofile and changed the pch=par
("pch") to pch=20.  However, redefining basic functions seems rather kludgy
to me.  Is there a simpler and batter way?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

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Andy Jaworski
Engineering Systems Technology Center
3M Center, 518-1-01
St. Paul, MN 55144-1000
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