[R] Bug in identify() ?

Rolf Turner rolf at maths.uwa.edu.au
Thu Nov 1 10:55:31 CET 2001


If I execute, e.g.

> x <- round(runif(20,0,1),2)
> y <- round(runif(20,0,1),2)
> plot(x,y,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1))
> identify(x,y,n=1,plot=F)

then I get the index of the identified point printed in the
command window, and ***initially*** the index is NOT displayed
in the graphics window (which is the behaviour I had hoped
and expected to obtain by setting ``plot=F'').

BUT THEN if I lower and then raise the graphics window, poof!!!
the index appears, unwanted, in the plot.

I think a workaround is to issue the identify command
as

> identify(x,y,n=1,col=0)

but still, shouldn't the function work as advertized?

Version information:

platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    3.1              
year     2001             
month    08               
day      31               
language R

				cheers,

					Rolf Turner
					rolf at math.unb.ca

P. S.  I'm sending this message to r-help rather than submitting
a bug report, because when I previously tried the latter I was
met with a deafening silence, and I'm not at all sure that my
bug report got through --- I ***thought*** I had the address right,
and the message didn't bounce .....
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