[R] scaling axes when plotting multiple data sets

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 davidr at rhotrading.com wrote:

> min, max, and range (and many other functions) take the na.rm parameter
> to ignore NAs, but the Infs must be removed by hand as far as I know:
>
> dat <- c(data1,data2,data3,data4)
> dat <- dat[(dat!=Inf)&(dat!=(-Inf))]
> rng <- range(dat, na.rm=TRUE)
> then use xlim = rng

range(dat[is.finite(dat)]) is clearer, I find.

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