[R] Unexpected behavior in boxplot

[Prof Brian Ripley]

[Not sure why you sent this to R-help rather than R-bugs or R-devel.]

It is a bug, and is now fixed in R-patched and R-devel.

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Austin, Matt wrote:

> When plotting using the cex.axis argument to boxplot(), the size of the
> plotting symbols beyond the whiskers of the boxplot are being changes.
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> Example:
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> par(mfrow=c(2,1))
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> boxplot(c(rnorm(10), 10), horizontal=TRUE, main="Test", las=2, cex.axis=2)
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> boxplot(c(rnorm(10), 10), horizontal=TRUE, main="Test", las=2, cex.axis=1)
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> This is from the following line in bxp()
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> outcex <- pcycle(pars$outcex, pars$cex, par("cex"))
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> Where pars$cex is matching pars$cex.axis.  This would also effect other
> parameter specifications.
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> This is a behavior I did not expect; I'm not sure if this is a design
> feature or something else.
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> --Matt
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> Matt Austin
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