[R] plot vs print ??

[Deepayan Sarkar]

2010/11/20 Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
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> On 18.11.2010 11:30, skan wrote:
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>> Hello everybody.
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>> My question arised from the output of lattice's histogram. But might be
>> extended to any other object that could be printed.
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>> I think I've understood your answers,  print calls the plot function when
>> the object to be printed is a trellis plot object.
>> I guess I can always use plot instead. ??
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> No, you really need to print() lattice objects.

Actually no; plot() would do as well.

My view is that plot() is the more obvious method for plotting a
trellis object, and print() is an alias that is useful (only) because
of the auto-printing rule.

(Note that this applies only to lattice, not Trellis in S-PLUS)

-Deepayan