[Rd] [patch] add=TRUE in plot.default()

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 23:47:29 CET 2008


On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 6:27 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Yes.  The ability to plot things on top of each other is important.
> >  The simplicity created by having a single interface for adding to plots
> >  outweighs the complexity of yet another parameter.
> >
> >  The add parameter only interacts with other parameters superficially --
> >  some parameters of "plot" (like log) are related to the shape of the axes,
> >  and should be inherited from what is on the plot already.
>
> But what about when the new data is outside the range of the current
> plot?

plot/lines/points already works that way so this is just an interface issue.



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