[R] problem with xaxt="n"

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
> 
> > Under WinNT4.0sp5 using the binaries downloaded from CRAN (version 1.0.0),
> > if I want to do a plot without the tick-marks and numbers on the x-axis,
> > the following:
> > 
> > > x <- rnorm(10)
> > > y <- rnorm(10)
> > > plot(x, y, xaxt="n")
> > 
> > does not give what I expect, i.e. it gives the same than "plot(x, y)".
> > However, the following works:
> > 
> > > par(xaxt="n")
> > > plot(x, y)
> > 
> > (i.e. nothing but the "x" label on the x-axis). Note that with version
> > 0.99.0 the first bit of code works fine. I have seen nothing related to a
> > change in setting xaxt in the annoucement files. I do not have R installed
> > on another OS down here, so I cannot say if it is OS-related or not.
> 
> Yes, and it does seem to be Windows-only.  There were some very late
> changes in that area, but this is strange and we will take a look.

Correction: it does appear on Unix too (I got 0.99.0 by mistake).  Yes,
the late changes to in-line parameter handling mean that xaxt="n" is
checked for before the in-line parameters are processed.  We will
fix this for 1.0.1.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !)  To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._