[R] "spreading out" a numeric vector

[Levi Waldron]

Would this function be worth submitting to some existing cran library?
 I'd be willing to document it and add error-checking if there is
somewhere that it belongs (with credit to Greg of course, unless Greg
wants to submit it himself).

I am using it in conjunction with a function I wrote which draws tics
on the timeline and draws a line from the tic to the label when they
aren't aligned.


>  >  I have tried experimenting with using optim to minimize a function of
>  >  the distances between new points and old points penealized for being to
>  >  close, but it sometimes gave me some weird results, the above has worked
>  >  fairly well for me (the above is based on some of the code inside the
>  >  triplot function in the TeachingDemos package).
>  >
>  >  Hope this helps,
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
>  >  Statistical Data Center
>  >  Intermountain Healthcare
>  >  greg.snow at imail.org
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>