[Rd] buglet in curve?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "BB" == Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu>
>>>>>     on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:12:06 -0500 writes:

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    BB>   Symptoms: curve with log x axis gets the wrong x
    BB> limits (in 2.6.1, I believe introduced in this version).

    BB>  Credit goes to Mike McCoy for detecting the problem.

    BB>   Demonstration:

    BB> x = 1:5 plot(x,5*exp(-x),xlim=c(0.1,1000),log="x") xvec
    BB> = 10^seq(-1,3,length=100) lines(xvec,5*exp(-xvec))
    BB> curve(5*exp(-x),add=TRUE,col=2,lwd=3)


    BB>    I believe the problem arises from this fix:

    BB>     o curve() with unspecified 'from', 'to' and 'xlim'
    BB> now reuses the previous x limits, and not slightly
    BB> larger ones.

    BB>  and I believe the solution is to replace this ...

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Thank you, Ben  (and Mike).
That's indeed a new buglet, and you are even right about
when it happened.
Mea culpa.

    BB>   cheers Ben Bolker

 {aaaah, it feels good to get a message from you without the
  appended Nabble spam :-)}

Regards,
Martin