[R] Customizing x-axis with stripchart

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 24/11/2007 9:07 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2007 8:56 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>>>> But it really isn't that hard to do:  just type fix(stripchart), and it
>>>> will be pretty clear what to delete (the calls to box(), axis(), and
>>>> Axis()).
>>> or download it from:
>>>
>>> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/graphics/R/stripchart.R
>>>
>>> and then
>>>
>>> source("stripchart.R")
>> Note that there are other changes in that version too:  stripchart() is
>> a generic function, and it handles formulas more like boxplot() does
>> than in 2.6.x or earlier.
>>> (Is there some way to source it directly without downloading it and
>>> then sourcing it?
>>> source() does not appear to work directly with https:)
>> In Windows if you start R with the --internet2 option (which uses IE
>> APIs instead of regular networking) and Windows trusts the certificate
>> authority, then https urls can be handled.  But svn.r-project.org is
>> self-signed, so it doesn't help in this case.
>>
> 
> Thanks.  It would be nice if some way could be developed/determined
> to allow sourcing from the R svn to happen.
> 
> I can think of other situations too where I wanted just one file from it
> without moving to the new R version.

Does wget support https?  If so, you could probably put together 
something involving a pipe.

Duncan Murdoch