[R] behaviour of plot(...,type="l")

[Zoltan Barta]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Lumley 
<thomas at biostat.washington.edu> wrote:

> plot.default() has an argument type=, so it *always* resets the plotting
> type. If you don't specify that argument it resets it to the default, "p".
> 
> It could be changed to default to par("type") but I don't see when this
> would be helpful.

It can be helpful if you are plotting a lot of line drawing (which is 
my case) and you would not like to set 'type="l"' in all of your plot 
commands. Of course, you can write a small function for that but I 
feel that it would be nicer to be able to set this with par().

Zoltan Barta


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