From: Peter Dalgaard BSA (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk)
Date: Mon 23 Jul 2001 - 20:31:23 EST
Message-id: <x2ae1w543o.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>
"Paul Murrell" <p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz> writes:
> Hi
>
>
> > This posting just illustrates the problem with plot()
> >
> > x<-1:20
> > y<-c(1:10,301:310)
> > plot(x,y)
> > xrange<-c(1,10)
> > plot(x,y,xlim=xrange) #uses ylim=range(y)
> > This is the default behaviour of plot() and I think it is not sensible.
> > By default the range of the y axis should span the y values corresponding
> > to the points plotted. In this example the yaxis should span 1-10 rather
> > than 1-310. This does the sensible thing:
> >
> > plot(x,y,xlim=xrange,ylim=range(y[x<=max(xrange) & x>=min(xrange)]))
> >
> > I suggest that plot() changes to this default behaviour.
>
>
> The only objections I can think of so far concern (backward) compatibility:
> (i) R currently does what S-Plus does -- that helps portability of S code
> (ii) If we made this change then users' existing R code might start behaving
> differently
>
> The second problem is a fairly significant one I think -- it is impossible
> to check for all instances and the change would be potentially quite
> dramatic. Perhaps you could argue that it would be sufficiently rare ...?
>
> Any other arguments for or against?
- in S-PLUS you generally get a bunch of warnings for points that run
off-scale - which presumably would teach you to do it with
subsetting rather than clipping. (e.g. plot(y~x, subset=x>=a&x<=b))
- the default expressions for xlim/ylim would have to get rather
complicated: ylim=if(!missing(xlim))range(y[x<=max(xrange) &
x>=min(xrange)]) (and symmetrically for xlim). I'm not sure we want
that for something as basic as plot().
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