[R] R plot

[Wacek Kusnierczyk]

it might be that for some purposes non-resizing graphs are useful; 
perhaps a graphical parameter that would allow the user to specify
whether the plot is to be automatically resized or not would be useful,
e.g.,

plot(..., resizable=T)

and then points(...) would cause the plot to adapt the scale.  and that
would help to market r as a modern language, i guess.  (btw. how does
one classify a language as modern or not?)

vQ

(Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 17-Oct-08 09:01:08, Benoit Boulinguiez wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Personally I always use xlim and ylim with the plot or points
>> function like that:
>>
>> plot( X,Y,pch=16,col=2,cex.axis=1.5,cex.lab=1.5,
>>       xlim=c(0,1.05*max(X)),ylim=c(0,1.05*max(Y))
>>       )
>>
>> Regards/Cordialement
>> Benoit Boulinguiez 
>>     
>
> I think (from his original post) that Haoda already knows about
> the use of xlim and ylim. What he finds annoying is "keeping track"
> of what they should be!
>
> Here, I'm afraid, I am inclined to agree with him. For example,
> if you want to plot say 10 time series, with different time-ranges
> and different value-ranges, all on the one graph, and they have
> to be obtained separately (even by reading in from 10 different
> data files), then the only way I have found is to wait until all
> the objects are available, then compute the min and max of the
> x-range and the y-range of each, and finally base xlim on the
> min of the min x-ranges and the max of the max x-ranges (and
> similarly for ylim). Of course you could alternatively do this
> cumulatively as you go along, and even build the process into
> a function. But it is a lot of "admin" along the way, and it can
> get complicated.
>
> This sort of thing has caused me a lot of extra work on many
> occasions, which would have been unnecessary if plots could
> "re-size" themselves when asked to go outside existing ranges.
> I grin and bear it, because that's how things work; but I have
> to admit that I don't like it!
>
> Best wishes to all,
> Ted.
>
>
>   
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> De
>> la part de Wacek Kusnierczyk
>> Envoyé : vendredi 17 octobre 2008 10:47
>> À : Haoda Fu
>> Cc : R help
>> Objet : Re: [R] R plot
>>
>> Haoda Fu wrote:
>>     
>>> All -
>>>
>>>
>>> When I plot something like
>>>
>>> a<-rnorm(5)
>>> b<-rnorm(5)
>>> plot(a,b,col = "red")
>>> points(10,-10)
>>>
>>> The last point is missing because it is out of range of the first 
>>> plot.
>>>
>>> I just try to switch from Matlab to R. In Matlab, it always can 
>>> automatic adjust the xlim and ylim for such case.
>>>
>>> Is it possible auto adjust in R? Otherwise keep tracking xlim and ylim
>>> is really annoying.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> if you know the range in advance, you can specify it using the xlim and
>> ylim
>> parameters to plot.  you can also use them in points (it doesn't cause
>> an
>> error), but it does not seem to have the desired effect of reshaping
>> the
>> plot.
>>
>> it's perhaps a pity it works this way, but you have to get used to it. 
>> or drop r if you find matlab better.
>>
>>
>> vQ
>>
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